Emmanuel Pontremoli was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 architect

Architect

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 and archaeologist. Born in Nice

Nice

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, Alpes-Maritimes

Alpes-Maritimes

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, a student in the atelier of Louis-Jules André

Louis-Jules André

Louis-Jules André was a French academic architect and the head of an important atelier at the École des Beaux-Arts.- Biography :...

, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

 in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts. He taught architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...

 and was appointed a director in 1932.

Pontremoli is best known for his architectural creation of Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer was built in the early 1900s by Theodore Reinach, the famous French archaeologist and his wife Fanny Kann, a daughter of Maximilien Kann and Betty Ephrussi, of the Ephrussi family. The architect was Emmanuel Pontremoli. A Greek word, "Kerylos" means Halcyon or...

 for Théodore and Fanny Reinach

Théodore Reinach

Théodore Reinach was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician....

 at Beaulieu-sur-Mer

Beaulieu-sur-Mer

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 and for the Institute for Human Paleontology in Paris

Paris

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 for Albert I, Prince of Monaco

Albert I, Prince of Monaco

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The Avenue Emmanuel Pontremoli in Nice is named in his memory.