#GuillameGillet

Guillaume Gillet (1912–1987) was a prominent French architect known for his contributions to modern religious and civic architecture. Born in Fontaine-Chaalis, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Emmanuel Pontremoli and Auguste Perret, graduating in 1937. During World War II he was a prisoner in Germany, where he decorated the French chapel in the Soest POW camp. After the war, he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1946 and spent several formative years in Rome as a resident at the Villa Medici, home of the French Academy, where he deepened his artistic and architectural training. He went on to design major works including the church of Notre-Dame de Royan (1958), the French Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels, the Palais des Congrès in Paris (1975), and the École nationale de la magistrature in Bordeaux (1972). He was elected president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1983 and was also a member of the Académie d'architecture. He is remembered as a leading figure in postwar French architecture and was buried, exceptionally, in the church of Notre-Dame de Royan, which he had designed.

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