Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the

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in the ateliers of

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and Pierre Esquié. Jaussely took the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1903, and would eventually run his own atelier at the school. Jaussely took the prestigious Prix Chaudesaigues. As a young graduate he was the winner, among five entrants, of the city plan for the expansion of

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. The Plan Jaussely was officially adopted in 1907 and although never completed, it guided the development of the city for decades. Jaussely was also the chief planner of the 1925 International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism in

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. Jaussely's individual building designs include the 1931 Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the Paris Paris Colonial Exposition (with fellow architects Albert Laprade and Léon Bazin), and the 1932 headquarters for the

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in Toulouse. He was the co-founder in 1911 of the French Society of Planners, with Henri Prost and others. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor. Jaussely is buried in the

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, Paris. Among Jaussely's students was Ernő Goldfinger. 31 - Toulouse - Poste SAINT-AUBIN, 1928 par Léon JAUSSELY (architecte).jpg, Postal office quartier St Aubin de Toulouse, 1928 Bordeaux Centre de tri Saint-Jean art-déco 4.JPG, Postal office of Saint-Jean de Bordeaux, 1929 Immeuble dit de La Dépêche du Midi, Toulouse.jpg, Building of ''La Dépêche'', rue Alsace-Lorraine in

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