Louis Rey was a well-respected architect in France, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, committed to the Art Deco style. He did the planning for several monuments, most notably the Pierre d’Haudroy Monument at La Flamengrie marking the end of World War I, the monument for the crew of the plane lost in the search for Umberto Nobile, and the monument for aviation pioneers Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser (1892–1927) and François Coli (1881–1927), which was submitted for the Art Competition. It commemorated the missing aviators and was built in 1928 in Étretat on the Normandy coast. Here, the plane had left French territory never to appear again. Rey was the architect, while the sculptural part was designed by Alexandre Joseph Descatoire (1874–1949) and Gaston Petit (1890-84). The monument was destroyed during the German occupation in World War II and replaced by a new one in 1962. He also designed several industry buildings in Bourges, where he ran an architecture office (Monin Distillery, building for the Leiseing Company, train station). In 1919, he was also responsible for the reconstruction of the city of Chauny, which was completely destroyed in 1917 during World War I.
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