“ We have regretfully learned of the death, at a ripe old age, of one of our local personages, the distinguished architect, M. Christophe-Edouard Mauss, who passed away at Mont Saint Aignan, to where he had long since retired. ”

“ An architect educated in the tradition of Constant Dufeux, he was noticed at the Salon of 1859 for his interesting project entitled "Rescue Home for the Poor". Since then, M. Christophe-Edouard Mauss was made Head of several archeological expeditions to the Orient, to Salonica, to Smyrna, and to Alexandria. In 1862 he was dispatched by the French government to Jerusalem in order to restore the Church of Saint Anne. ”

“ In his capacity of architect at the ministere des affaires etrangeres (the French Foreign Office) he joined the exploration expedition headed by F. de Saulcy (1807-1870) a French archeologist charged with the exploration of the Dead Sea and the Land of Amon across the River Jordan. One of his most significant works at this time was the reconstruction of the large cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the original reconstruction of which is attributed to Constantine. ”