What is Gustave Marchegay?
{{Infobox person/Wikidata | name = Gustave Marchegay | occupation = [[architect]] and [[sculptor]] |image = Gustave Marchegay (1859-1932), architecte et sculpteur.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date |df=y|1859|8|25}} | birth_place = [[Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay]], France | death_date = {{death date |1932|6|19}} | death_place = [[Bains-les-Bains]], France | nationality = {{french}} }} '''Gustave Marchegay''', born on August 25, 1859 in [[Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay]] and died on June 19, 1932 in [[Bains-les-Bains]], is a [[France|French]] [[architect]], [[Watercolour|watercolourist]] and sculptor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gustave Marchegay (17634) {{!}} Musée d'Orsay|url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/es/recursos/directorio-artistas-personalidades/gustave-marchegay-17634|access-date=2023-02-12|website=musee-orsay.fr}}.</ref> ==Biography== Emile Gustave Marchegay was born on August 25, 1859 in [[Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Base Léonore|url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/247096|language=fr}}</ref> in [[Vendée]]. Admitted in 1881 to the [[École Polytechnique]], he joins the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from which he graduated in 1885.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Verly|first=Charles Antoine|title=Gustave MARCHEGAY (1859-1932)|url=http://figuresherminoises.over-blog.com/article-gustave-marchegay-1859-1932-39724777.html|access-date=2023-02-12|website=FIGURES HERMINOISES|language=fr}}.</ref> Gustave Marchegay then becomes architect of the City of Paris, and will thus be an inspector at the facilities of the [[Great Exhibition]] of 1900.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Recherche - Base de données Léonore|url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/#show|access-date=2023-02-12|website=leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr|language=fr}}.</ref> As an [[École Centrale Paris|Engineer of Arts and Manufactures]], he was named [[Legion of Honour|Knight of the Legion of Honor]] on August 14, 1900. On behalf of his