VIOLLET-LE-DUC'S INFLUENCE IN NINETEENTH- CENTURY ENGLAND.

The article focuses on theorist and architect M. Viollet-le-Duc and his influence in nineteenth-century England. Most of his contemporary architects failed in an understanding of his ideas. In England, in part owing to the fact that his major writings were not translated his ideas made even less impact. Although, his "Dictionnaires" were widely used, however, they were looked upon as works of reference, repositories of information, providing brief and reliable histories of a whole range of buildings and features. Several architects have been proposed to bear witness to a general admiration for Viollet-le-Duc--especially the Viollet-le-Duc of the Dictionnaires.