Ia palasin awak saking penekanan Prancis saking kategehan, lan ngilangang statuta kolom miwah patung ring entri melengkung, miwah nutupin fasad antuk mosaik warna-warni saking adegan alkitabiah (mosaik dugas puniki saking pinanggal salanturne).
He broke away from the French emphasis on height, and eliminated the column statutes and statuary in the arched entries, and covered the facade with colourful mosaics of biblical scenes (The current mosaics are of a later date).