Mansart
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Jules Hardouin Jules Hardouin, 1646–1708, French architect: chief architectural director for Louis XIV.
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his granduncle (Nicolas) François 1598–1666, French architect.
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François (frɑ̃swa). 1598–1666, French architect, who established the classical style in French architecture
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his great-nephew, Jules Hardouin (ʒyl ardwɛ̃). 1646–1708, French architect and town planner, who completed the Palace of Versailles
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The mansard roof, where the topmost stories pitch back at an angle, takes its name from François Mansart, the 17th-century French architect who used it extensively.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2011
Scene: The salle a manger of the Bank of France in the Hotel de Toulouse, an historic palace built by the great architect Francois Mansart, for a natural son of Louis XIV.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mansart retreated a few steps, crouching back like a wild beast that has received a wound, which simulates an approaching end, and which holds its remaining strength together waiting for its destroyer to draw near.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
This was the preparatory period of the coming into being of the works of Le Notre and Mansart.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
Mansart on one occasion was called in and built a new gallery that Coypel decorated with fourteen compositions after the Ænid of Virgil.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
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