Work
Laloux's work includes:
- the neo-Byzantine Basilica of St. Martin, Tours, in Tours, 1886–1924 - a project with some political connotations as it was built to replace an earlier Basilica destroyed during the French Revolution.
- Gare de Tours, in Tours, 1896–1898, with four allegorical limestone statues of cities by Jean Antoine Injalbert (Bordeaux and Toulouse) and Jean-Baptiste Hugues (Limoges and Nantes)
- the Paris Gare d'Orsay, now the Musée d'Orsay, 1900
- Hotel de Ville, Roubaix, 1903, with architectural sculpture by Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
- Hotel de Ville, Tours, 1904, also with sculpture by Cordonnier
- completion of the Crédit Lyonnais headquarters, Paris, 1913
- the U.S. Embassy, Paris, with his student, American architect William Delano, 1931
- Palais du Hanovre, Paris, with his student Charles Lemaresquier, 1932
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“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children’s play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in “playing” chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
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““Which is more important to you, your field or your children?” the department head asked. She replied, “That’s like asking me if I could walk better if you amputated my right leg or my left leg.””
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