French family of architects. (1) Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer was an influential administrator and teacher in post-Revolutionary Paris, his atelier producing some of the most important innovators in French architecture of the first half of the 19th century. His son (2) Léon Vaudoyer was one of the founders of the new Romantic movement in architecture, his theories embodied in his principal works—the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris, and Marseille Cathedral. Léon’s son Alfred Vaudoyer (b Paris, 13 March 1846; d Jouy-en-Josas, 1917), who trained with his father, helped complete Marseille Cathedral, but he worked principally in private practice, building numerous houses in a neo-Renaissance style in the western suburbs of Paris, especially around Jouy-en-Josas. He also designed several pavilions for the Expositions Universelles in Paris (1878, 1889, 1900). Alfred’s son Georges Vaudoyer (b Jouy-en-Josas, 1877; d Paris, 1947) and grandson Jean-Laurent Vaudoyer (b Paris, ...