page_title: Georges Closson
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Georges Closson / Works
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Extérieur (façade ouest) de la basilique Sainte Jeanne d'Arc
context_page_description: Georges Alexandre Closson was a French architect.
context_section_description: Closson participated in the design of Heliopolis, a new city in the desert near Cairo commenced in 1905. Closson worked with chief architect Alexandre Marcel for developer Édouard Louis Joseph Empain. Closson also executed Marcel's competition-winning design for a memorial chapel commemorating the Battles of the Marne at Dormans, built between 1921 and 1931.
  In 1926 Closson won a design competition for the new Basilica of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in Paris over a competing design by Auguste Perret. The rejection of Perret's ambitious modern design in favor of Closson's more conservative design became a subject of controversy. Closson's design was itself less archeologically correct, nearer in style to the contemporary Église Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot by Émile Bois. The new basilica was partially completed between 1928 and 1940. Construction was suspended by the Second World War. The church was completed in the 1960s to a more modern design by Pierre Isnard.
caption: Original façade of the Basilica of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc
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