Henri Parent was a French architect.

Son-in-law of the architect Joseph-Antoine Froelicher

Joseph-Antoine Froelicher

Josef Anton or Joseph-Antoine Froelicher or Frölicher was a Swiss architect.Coming from an old middle class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his architectural studies in Switzerland, receiving his degree in Solothurn in 1809. He then left for Paris, endowed with a pension from the Swiss...

, Henri Parent restored and transformed several hôtels particuliers in the Faubourg Saint-Germain for high aristocratic families. He worked particularly on the Hôtel de Boisgelin, 47 rue de Varenne (VIIe arrondissement), transformed for the Dukes of Doudeauville and of Bisaccia : putting up panelling originally in the château

Château

A château is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions...

 at Bercy

Bercy

Bercy is a neighborhood in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. It is the city's 47th administrative neighborhood. -History:Some of the oldest vestiges of human occupation in Paris were found on the territory of Bercy, dating from the late Neolithic . The name of Bercy, or Bercix, appeared for the...

, and creating a chapel, a winter garden, a dining room, stables for 25 horses, two rooms for 8 carriages, two cellars and a grand staircase ("escalier d'honneur") panelled with polychromatic

Polychrome

Polychrome is one of the terms used to describe the use of multiple colors in one entity. It has also been defined as "The practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." Polychromatic light is composed of a number of different wavelengths...

 marble plaques and inspired by the queen's staircase at the Palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....

. (This building is now the Italian embassy.)

He also created three very luxurious Parisian residences:

• Hôtel particulier 158 boulevard Haussmann
  Boulevard Haussmann
  Boulevard Haussmann, running from the 8th to the 9th arrondissement,is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, with enthusiastic support from Napoleon III....
  
   (VIIIe arrondissement), in the Louis XVI style
  Neoclassical architecture
  Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...
  
  , for Édouard André
  Édouard André
  Édouard François André was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces of Monte Carlo and Montevideo....
  
   (1833-1894) in 1867-1874 (today the Musée Jacquemart-André
  Musée Jacquemart-André
  The Musée Jacquemart-André is a public museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart to display the art they collected during their lives.-History:Edouard André, the scion of a...
  
  ).
• Hôtel particulier 5 avenue Van Dyck (VIIIe arrondissement), in the Eclectic style with ornaments sculpted by Jules Dalou
  Jules Dalou
  Aimé-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.-Life:...
  
  , for the industrialist Émile Menier in 1870-1872 (now a private residence).
• Hôtel particulier 8 rue Alfred de Vigny (VIIIe arrondissement), Neo Gothic in style, for Henri Menier
  Henri Menier
  Henri Emile Anatole Menier was a French businessman and adventurer and a member of the Menier family of chocolatiers. Born in Paris, he was the son of Emile-Justin Menier and grandson to Antoine Brutus Menier who founded the Menier Chocolate company...
  
   in 1880 (today the Conservatoire international de musique).

He designed Émile-Justin Menier

Emile-Justin Menier

Émile-Justin Menier French pharmaceutical manufacturer, chocolatier, and politician, was born in Paris. In 1853, on the death of his father, Antoine, Émile-Justin Menier inherited a large and successful Parisian company that manufactured a range of medicinal powders.His father's company also...

's tomb, one of the most remarkable in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (1887). He came second (after Charles Garnier

Charles Garnier (architect)

Charles Garnier was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.-Early life:...

) in the competition to design the new Opéra de Paris.

With his brother Clément Parent

Clément Parent

François Clément Joseph Parent was a French architect. Among his work was the castle at Ooidonk. With his brother Henri Parent, he restored the châteaux of Ancy-le-Franc for the Clermont-Tonnerre, Esclimont and Bonnetable families. One of his pupils was the Hungarian Ödön Lechner.-External...

, he restored the châteaux of Ancy-le-Franc for the Clermont-Tonnerre, Esclimont and Bonnetable families.

Source

• This article is a translation of the article Henri Parent on French Wikipedia.