Editing Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (section)

==Sainte-Chapelle and Amboise==
Viollet-le-Duc's success at Vezelay led to a large series of projects. In 1840, in collaboration with his friend the architect [[Jean-Baptiste Lassus]] he began the restoration of [[Sainte-Chapelle]] in Paris, which had been turned into a storage depot after the Revolution.  In February 1843, King Louis Philippe sent him to the [[Château of Amboise]], to restore the stained glass windows in the chapel holding the tomb of [[Leonardo da Vinci]]. The windows were unfortunately destroyed in 1940 during World War&nbsp;II.{{Sfn|Poisson|2014|page=96}}

In 1843, Mérimée took Viollet-le-Duc with him to Burgundy and the south of France, on one of his long inspection tours of monuments. Viollet-le-Duc made drawings of the buildings and wrote detailed accounts of each site, illustrated with his drawing, which were published in architectural journals.  With his experience he became the most prominent academic scholar on French medieval architecture{{Sfn|Poisson|2014|page=96}} and his medieval dictionnary, with over 4000 drawings, contains the largest iconography on the subject to this day.