Paul Huillard (; 15 February 1875 – 11 February 1966) was a French

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and

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who collaborated on many projects with Louis Süe.

Career

Paul Huillard was born in

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on 15 February 1875. Huillard studied at the ''

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'' under Victor Laloux (1850–1937). He was a classmate of the architect Louis Süe. He qualified as an ''Architecte DPLG''. He married Jeanne Moreau on 17 April 1907. From 1903 to 1912 Huillard and Süe worked as the ''Agence Süe et Huillard''. They made a series of dwellings, particularly for their painter friends. Huillard and Süe collaborated on a row of buildings of the Rue Cassini, Paris. Other works included a group of artists workshops on Boulevard du Montparnasse (1908–12), the ''Hôtel de Couture'' of

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(1909) and the

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(1911) in Brussels. The château was built for the industrialist Paul Wittouck (1851–1917). Sue, Huillard and the decorator Gustave Louis Jaulmes avoided

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for the château, and instead chose the fashionable Louis XVI style "à la Grecque". Huillard and Süe also designed furniture. They were involved in interior decoration, and regularly exhibited at the '' Salon d'Automne''. Huillard exhibited an

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bedroom at the 1913 ''Salon d'Automne''. He also showed a model dining room at this Salon. In the French section of the 1925

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Paul Huillard designed the "library", a well-lit hall in which bindings, printed pages and engravings were displayed. In the 1930s Huillard created an educational game, ''Bâtir'', with wooden blocks in various shapes and sizes painted with doors and windows. The blocks could be assembled in different combinations to make houses. Paul Huillard became a specialist in the

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of the

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department. In 1960 he published a book on the faience of

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from 1725 to 1870. Huillard assembled a large collection of faience objects, and installed his collection in the house where Georges Moreau was born, a pleasant bourgeois residence from the 19th century typical of the local architecture. He died on 11 February 1966 in Paris at the age of 90. He bequeathed the house and faience collection to the town of

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, where it is now the ''Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Puisaye''.

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