{{Short description|French architect (1870–1942)}} thumb|185px|Paul Bigot (c.1940) [[File:Plan Rome Caen Circus Maximus Colisée.jpg|300px|thumb|Plaster model of Rome by Paul Bigot at the University of Caen, showing the area around the Circus Maximus]] [[File:Paul-Bigot-Paris.JPG|thumb|Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Paris]] [[File:St Quentin monument aux morts.jpg|thumb|Monument aux Morts in Saint-Quentin]]

'''Paul Bigot''' (20 October 1870 – 8 June 1942) was a French architect.

==Biography== Bigot was born in Orbec, Calvados. He studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1900, which enabled him to study in Rome at the Villa Medici. He later became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.

He is particularly known for his "Plan of Rome", a large architectural model of Ancient Rome. It is a plaster model of about 70 square metres at a scale of 1:400, showing Rome as it would have been in the time of the emperor Constantine I (4th century AD). The model is preserved at the University of Caen and is itself listed as an ancient monument. A second version is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels.

Bigot was the architect of the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, in Paris, completed in 1932.

==Works==

* 1908-1942: {{lang|fr|Plan de Rome}}, a large model of Rome in 350 CE. * 1920-1932: Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Paris * 1922: reconstruction of the town of Fargniers following its comprehensive destruction during World War I, in association with Henri Paul Nénot, financed by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace * 1924-1934: reconstruction of the neighborhood around the Saint-Quentin station in Saint-Quentin, including the Monument aux Morts with sculptors Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski * 1930: Monument of the First Battle of the Marne in Mondement * 1933: Monument to Aristide Briand on the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, with Henri Bouchard and Paul Landowski * 1935: refurbishment of Hôtel Matignon as office and residence of the French Prime Minister * 1935-1939: expansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs * 1936: Monument to Ferdinand Foch, Paris, with sculptor {{ill|Robert Wlérick|fr}}<ref name=Picard>{{citation |title=L'Institut d'art et d'archéologie, Paris 1932 |editor=Simon Texier |publisher=Picard |location=Paris |date=2005 |pages=25–27}}</ref>

==See also== * Armando Brasini * Paul Tournon

==References==

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===External links=== * [http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/index.php?langue=anglais Le Plan de Rome website at University of Caen] * [http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/presentation.php?langue=anglais&action=bigot&idMonu=&lien=&page=2&id=&titre= Biography: "Paul Bigot: a Norman in Rome"] * [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/10/11/model-of-rome-took-thirty-years-to-build/ Modern Mechanix: Model of Rome Took Thirty Years to Build (Jun, 1934)] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/761070537/in/set-72157600215048743/ ] See: Designed / created by Arch. Paul Bigot ("Prix de Rome"), c. 1906&ndash;1911. News Report: REMARKABLE RESTORATION OF THE ANCIENT CITY MADE IN MODEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES (26-11-1911, pg. SM8). cf. * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157600215048743/ ] Martin. G. Conde, Rome. Model's of Ancient Rome [Area of the Imperial Fora]: Giuseppe Marcelliani (1905–1906); Paul Bigot (1906–1911, 1942); Italo Gismondi / Pierino Di Carlo (1933–1937, & later revisions). * [https://wikilivres.org/wiki/Paul_Bigot Works by Paul Bigot]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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