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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