MANSART Definition & Meaning

Mansart

[ mahn-sar; English man-sahrt, -sert ]

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Jules Har·douin [zh, y, l , a, r, -, dwan], Jules Hardouin, 1646–1708, French architect: chief architectural director for Louis XIV.
his granduncle (Ni·co·las) Fran·çois [nee-kaw-, lah, f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1598–1666, French architect.

Mansart

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Mansart��ç�Ǿ��15981666MFrenchARCHITECTURE: architect ��ç�Ǿ�� (frɑ̃swa). 1598–1666, French architect, who established the classical style in French architecture
MansartJules Hardouin16461708MFrenchARCHITECTURE: architectMISC: town planner 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 Pierre’s elaborate crown, modelled on Charles Mansart’s Chapelle Royale at Versailles, says “classic, rich New York”, which is perhaps why The Pierre has been the setting for a raft of films.

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Now Simon Mansart lay very ill, and it was said that he was dying.

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In September of that year, at the suggestion of Mansart, the first was held in the Louvre.

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That part of the structure built by Mansart for Gaston d'Orleans appears strange, solemn, and superfluous in connection with the sumptuousness of the earlier portions.

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The mansard roof, where the topmost stories pitch back at an angle, takes its name from ��ç�Ǿ�� Mansart, the 17th-century French architect who used it extensively.

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