Nantes, 1850–1941.
In 1871, Lucien Roy is admitted to the Beaux Arts in Paris. Chief Architect of Historic Monuments in 1893, in the Etampes and Corbeil region, then in Paris where he was in charge of the Hotel Crillon, the Military School, the disabled. He also restored many churches including Saint Benoit sur Loire, castles including Langeais and built Sainte Catherine in Villeneuve sur Lot. It was named architecture of the French section of the Universal Exhibition of 1900, then member of the French Archaeological Society. Lucien Roy made many trips throughout Europe and Africa, in Morocco in 1913. The Maison de la Photographie has established an agreement with the Médiathèque du Patrimoine, which allows us to show prints on paper of Lucien Roy's autochromes.