Charles Lemaresquier

{{Short description|French architect}}

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Charles Henri-Camille Lemaresquier (16 October 1870 in Sète - 6 January 1972 in Paris) was a French architect and teacher.

Lemaresquier was born in Sète, in southern France, into a family of artists, and apprenticed to a Parisian architect at the age of 16. He was accepted into the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1888, and by 1890 was in the atelier of Victor Laloux, who had taken over from his mentor Louis-Jules André after André's death.

In the summer and fall of 1927, Lemaresquier represented France on the jury of nine European architects judging the high-profile Palace of Nations competition, assessing the 375 entries alongside fellow judges such as Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Victor Horta, and Josef Hoffman.{{cite news |title=Nation League Home Attracts Many Bidders |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/397422082/ |access-date=13 September 2021 |publisher=Dayton Ohio Daily News |date=3 July 1927}}

Among his students were Max Ingrand and David Moreira da Silva. The architect held seat #6 of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1938 until his death in 1972.{{cite web |title=Charles Lemaresquier |url=https://www.academiedesbeauxarts.fr/charles-lemaresquier |website=Académie des beaux-arts |date=12 March 1938 |access-date=13 September 2021}}

In 1900 Lemaresquier married Germaine Ribaucourt (1874–1951),{{cite web |title=Monuments aux morts (fr) |url=https://monumentsmorts.univ-lille.fr/auteur/6616/lemaresquiercharles/ |website=LE MARESQUIER Charles- Architecte |access-date=16 September 2021}} and their union produced four children. His son Noël Le Maresquier (1903–1982) trained in his father's atelier, modified the family surname, and became an architect with a similar career with similar honors. Lemaresquier was also the father-in-law of French Prime Minister Michel Debré, who married the architect's daughter Anne-Marie.{{cite news |last1=Herald |first1=George W. |title=DeGaulle's Disraeli: A Look at France's New Premier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/553184669/ |access-date=12 September 2021 |publisher=York Daily Record, York, Pennsylvania |date=21 January 1959}}