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{{Short description|French architect}}
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'''Auguste Henri Vildieu''' was the French architectural [[adjutant]] in [[Hanoi]] while that city was an administrative center for the French [[colony]] of [[Indochina]].  Vildieu constructed several grand European-style buildings for the colonial [[government]], including:
*the ''Bureaux et Résidences Supérieure'' (including the [[Tonkin Palace]])
* the [[Mairie]] (City Hall)
*the [[Palais de Justice (Hanoi)|Palais de Justice]] (Supreme Court)
*the [[post office]]
*the [[Presidential_Palace,_Hanoi|Presidential Palace]] 1900-1906<ref>{{Citation|last1=Logan |first1=William Stewart |title=Hanoi: Biography of a City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiYG5lXd4XsC&dq=Auguste+Henri+Vildieu&pg=PA72 |place=Sydney |publisher=[[University of New South Wales Press]] |page=72 |year=2000|isbn=086840-443-8 }}</ref> (then known as the Palace of the Governor-General of Indochina)
*the [[Public Works]] Building
*the [[Hỏa Lò Prison]]

Vildieu may also have been involved with the construction of the local [[Roman Catholic]] [[cathedral]].
While Vildieu spent most of his working life designing French buildings in [[Vietnam]], he early on designed a Vietnamese building in [[France]] for the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|1889 Universal Exposition]].  This [[pavilion]] was modeled on the porch of the [[Pagoda of Quan Yen]], and was referred to at the Exposition as the "Palace of Annan and Tonkin".

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