(b Alençon, Orne, June 10, 1828; d Paris, 1910). French architect. His prolific and eclectic oeuvre was unified by a lifelong desire to resolve the various theoretical strains of his training. He was a student of Henri Labrouste and Léon Vaudoyer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, under whose influence he worked in the Commission des Monuments Historiques in the late 1850s. Lisch restored the churches of St Benoît sur Loire (1865) and St Germain des Prés (1868–71), both near Orléans, and was named Diocesan Architect for Luçon in 1857, Amiens in 1874 and Angoulême in 1880; for Luçon he designed the seminary and the Gothic Revival bishop’s palace (both 1872). While his chapel for the Couvent des Oiseaux in Paris (designed 1865; built 1873–6) synthesized classical and Byzantine elements in the manner of Vaudoyer, his designs for the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and railway stations, including the new Gare Saint-Lazare (...