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Jules Hardouin-Mansart (French pronunciation: [ʒyl aʁdwɛ̃ mɑ̃saʁ]; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Grand Trianon of the Palace of Versailles.
Hardouin-Mansart was the architectural genius behind the most spectacular constructions under Louis XIV. His first known work for the king was Château du Val in the forest of Saint-Germain in 1674.
May 9, 2024 · Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French architect and city planner to King Louis XIV who completed the design of Versailles. Mansart in 1668 adopted the surname of his granduncle by marriage, the distinguished architect François Mansart.
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Jul 3, 2018 · Into this heady assemblage strode the young architect Jules Hardouin, whose work is considered to be the pinnacle of French Baroque architecture. Born in Paris in 1646, Jules studied under his renowned great-uncle, François Mansart (also spelled Mansard), one of the originators of classical French architecture and inventor of the ubiquitous ...
Le Vau’s successor, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, produced a more suitable design that replaced the terrace with a large gallery. Work started in 1678 and ended in 1684.
While working on the Grand Trianon in 1687, architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart followed Louis XIV’s instructions to the letter. The king kept a close eye on the progress of the building work, and even personally commissioned the construction of the Peristyle.
French architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart is considered to be one of the most important European architects of the 17th Century. Like his great-uncle, architect Francois Mansart, Mansart was a proponent of the Baroque style of architecture, and created some of the most famous buildings of his time.
