Pierre-Marie Bossan (23 July 1814, in Lyon – 23 July 1888, in La Ciotat) was a French historicist architect, a pupil of Henri Labrouste, specialising in ecclesiastical architecture.
Life and work In 1844 he was appointed architect to the diocese of Lyon, where his major work was the neo-Byzantine basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière (1872–84), on a height dominating Lyon. He also designed Lyon's Église Saint-Georges, an extension to the parish church at Ars-sur-Formans (1862–65)The twelfth-century church of Saint Sixte, was rebuilt by the Curé of Ars, as a narthex to the basilica by Bossan. In the basilica is a reliquary containing the body of the curé, canonised as Saint Jean-Marie Vianney. and churches at Régny, Neulise and Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (1854–56), as well as the pilgrimage basilica of La Louvesc (1865) in the department of Ardèche, Dauphiné.
There are funerary monuments designed by Bossan at Valence.
He is buried in the Cimetière de Loyasse, Lyon.
Selected works 1854–56: Cloister of the Visitandines, Lyon About 1855: Maison Blanchon, quai Fulchiron, Lyon. A house in Moorish tasteSaints et Madones au coins de nos rues, éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, 1995:58 1858–62: Église de l'Immaculée-Conception, Lyon completed 1859: Petit séminaire de Meximieux (Ain), today the Hôtel de Ville 1862–65 Basilica at Ars-sur-Formans, département de l'Ain completed 1865: Église Sainte-Anne, Lyon. Unifinished; closed in 1938 and demolished 1939Jean Pelletier, Connaître son arrondissement, le 3eme, éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, pp. 42-43 completed 1865: Église Saint-Maurice, Echallon 1867: Construction begun on the parish church of Régnié-Durette, département of the Rhône; the structure was completed in 1895, after his death 1872: Construction begun on Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon. Inaugurated in 1896
See also Parc des Hauteurs
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L'œuvre de Pierre Bossan, 1891 by Thiollier, Félix