Editing Henri Labrouste (section)

==Biography==
Born in Paris, Labrouste was one of five children of {{Interlanguage link|François-Marie-Alexandre Labrouste|fr}}, a lawyer and politician from Bordeaux and Anne-Dominique Gourg (1764–1851), daughter and granddaughter of cognac merchants. He entered the [[Collège Sainte-Barbe]] as a student in 1809. He was then admitted into the second class and the Lebas-Vaudoyer workshop in the École Royale des Beaux Arts in 1819. In 1820, he was promoted to the first class.  Competing for the Grand Prix, Labrouste was awarded second place (the Palais de Justice scored first) by [[Guillaume-Abel Blouet]] in 1821. 

In 1823, he won the departmental prize and worked as a lieutenant-inspector (''sous-inspecteur'') for the director [[Étienne-Hippolyte Godde]] during the construction of the Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou parish in Paris. In 1824 Labrouste won the competition with a design of a Court of Appeals (Cour de cassation). In November, he left Paris for Italy, visiting Turin, Milan, Lodi, Piacenza, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence and Arezzo.

In July 1835 in Paris he was present at the scene when [[Giuseppe Marco Fieschi]] attempted the assassination of King [[Louis-Philippe]] using a home-made, multi-barrel gun fired from an upstairs window. Although the King only received a minor injury, 18 people were killed, including Henri's father, Alexandre Labrouste.<ref name="LabrousteBélier2012">{{cite book|author1=Henri Labrouste|author2=Corinne Bélier|author3=Barry Bergdoll|author4=Marc Le Cœur|author5=Martin Bressan|author6=Neil Levine|title=Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light|year=2012|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-839-8|pages=48}}</ref>