Frantz Jourdain (; 3 October 1847 - 22 August 1935) was a Belgian architect and author. He is best known for La Samaritaine, an Art Nouveau department store built in the 1st arrondissement of Paris in three stages between 1904 and 1928. He was respected as an authority on Art Nouveau.

Life

Frantz Jourdain was born in 1847.In the 1860s, he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts.He

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