Pierre Bossan

Pierre-Marie Bossan (1814 in Lyon – 1888) was a French historicist architect, a pupil of Henri Labrouste, specialising in ecclesiastical architecture. In 1844 he was appointed architect to the diocese of Lyon, where his major work was the neo-Byzantine basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière (1872–84), on a height dominating Lyon. He also designed Lyon's Église Saint-Georges, an extension to the parish church at Ars-sur-Formans (1862–65)[1] and churches at Régny, Neulise and Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (1854–56), as well as the pilgrimage basilica of La Louvesc (1865) in the department of Ardèche, Dauphiné.

Pierre Bossan plaque. Sculpture by Paul-Émile Millefaut

There are funerary monuments designed by Bossan at Valence.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Loyasse, Lyon.

Selected works
  • 1854–56: Cloister of the Visitandines, Lyon
  • About 1855: Maison Blanchon, quai Fulchiron, Lyon. A house in Moorish taste[2]
  • 1858–62: Église de l'Immaculée-Conception, Lyon
  • completed 1859: Petit séminaire de Meximieux (Ain), today the Hôtel de Ville
  • 1862–65 Basilica at Ars-sur-Formans, département de l'Ain
  • completed 1865: Église Sainte-Anne, Lyon. Unifinished; closed in 1938 and demolished 1939[3]
  • completed 1865: Église Saint-Maurice, Echallon
  • 1867: Construction begun on the parish church of Régnié-Durette, département of the Rhône; the structure was completed in 1895, after his death
  • 1872: Construction begun on Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon. Inaugurated in 1896

See also

Notes
  1. The twelfth-century church of Saint Sixte, was rebuilt by the Curé of Ars, as a narthex to the basilica by Bossan. In the basilica is a reliquary containing the body of the curé, canonised as Saint Jean-Marie Vianney.
  2. Saints et Madones au coins de nos rues, éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, 1995:58
  3. Jean Pelletier, Connaître son arrondissement, le 3eme, éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, pp. 42-43
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