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Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France | Architecture

Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France | Architecture

Variously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation. In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was …

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