[Pierre Jérôme Honoré].  French architect, born in Paris on the 23rd of October 1826. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1845, and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1855. In 1861 he was attached to the important exploratory expedition and mission in Macedonia, and was commissioned to draw up the report. In the following year he was appointed inspector of works for the then recently created Prefecture of Police, and was later acting architect to the Palais de Justice, succeeding in 1876 Viollet-le-Duc as architect-in-chief. This fine building may be regarded as one of the great and lasting monuments of his career. During the next few years Daumet’s talents and artistic equipment, especially in matters of archæological interest and research, received recognition from the French Government in his appointment to many official positions, culminating in his vice-presidentship of the Commission des Monuments Historiques. His brother-artists distinguished him by electing him vice-president of the Société des Artistes Français, and president of the Société des Architectes Français. In 1885 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in the following year an honorary corresponding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who further awarded him their gold medal in 1908. One of the highest expressions of his genius was his restoration of Chantilly in close collaboration with the Duc d’Aumale, who later (in 1897) bequeathed it to the French nation, as represented by the Institut de France. Among Daumet’s many architectural works may be noted the following: The Palais des Facultés and the Palais de Justice at Grenoble, the Ecce Homo chapel at Jerusalem, the pension and chapel of the Dames de Sion in Paris and Tunis, his early work at the Asile des Aliénés of Ste. Anne, and the Palais de Justice, Paris, already mentioned. His literary work, besides his important account of the archæological mission to Macedonia, includes a book on the Château de St. Germain and its restoration for which he was responsible. His services to the educational side of his art were considerable. His atelier produced no less than nine holders of the Grand Prix de Rome—a notable record. He died on the 13th of December 1911.