Sahut studied at the
École des Beaux-Arts in
Paris, where he specialised in ornamentation and decoration within
architecture. He arrived in
Peru in 1905, working as a furniture designer for the
Magot Frères factory. In 1907, he was commissioned by the
Peruvian government commissioned him to head the Public Works section of the
Charity of Lima. Under the government of
Augusto B. Leguía, he was the architect in charge of the design of the
Parque de la Reserva and the redesign of the
Government Palace, which
Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski completed in 1937. He returned to France in 1932. ==Notable works==