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| | Jules Hardouin Mansart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | [[Image Link]]: a full-dress Baroque portrait bust demonstrates that the King's architect is no mere craftsman]] Jules Hardouin-Mansart (Paris, April 16, 1646 – Marly, France, May 11, 1708) was a French architect whose work is considered by many to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV. |
 | | At the château of Dampiere-en-Yvelines (illustration, right), Jules Hardouin-Mansart was building (1675 - 1683) for the Duc de Chevreuse, Colbert's brother-in-law, a patron at the center of Louis XIV's court. |
 | | This French Baroque chateau of manageable size lies entre cour et jardin as even Versailles did, the paved and gravel forecourt (cour d'honneur) protected behind fine wrought iron double gates, tand enclosed by the main block and its outbuildings (corps de logis), linked by balustrades, symetrically disposed. |
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