Bad Palladio would always be more palatable than bad Bernini or Mansart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum] Reference

Many people say, too, that she hastened the passage of poor Mansart into the other world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

Mansart designed the architectural attributes of the lower cascade and scores considerably over his colleague.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

François Mansart built the first Chateau de Maisons on a magnificent scale for René de Longueil, the Superintendent of Finance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

When he succeeded as "first architect," Jules Mansard (or Mansart) first undertook the erection of quarters for the Bourbon princes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

Mansart on one occasion was called in and built a new gallery that Coypel decorated with fourteen compositions after the Ænid of Virgil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Archbishop of Paris, bought the property of Richelieu, and, with the aid of Mansart and Le Notre, considerably embellished it within and without.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Mansart was called in and a great gallery intended for fêtes and ceremonies was constructed, and Mignard was given the commission for its decorations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

In the garden of the Grand Trianon is a great basin with a cascade flowing down over a sort of a high altar arrangement in red and white marble called the Buffet de l'Architecture, and evolved by Mansart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Gondi had made, to be enlarged and embellished by Mansart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference

In the ‘mansarde’ roof we have the name of Mansart, the architect who introduced it.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

The present château was begun under Louis XIV by Mansart (1661), the gardens were designed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

But in 1687 the humble château was pulled down, and the present palace erected by Mansart in its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference

Mansart was its first architect, and the corner-stone was laid in 1645 by Louis XIV at the age of seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

"Mansart designed it for noble stock, and the populace will get their children in it!" exclaimed the elder.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Mystery] Reference

The orangery is a beautiful specimen of tuscan architecture, designed by le Maitre, and finished by Mansart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.] Reference

According to a bound manuscript bearing the arms of Mansart, the palace cost 153 million, that is to say, about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Regime] Reference

Court, but Mansart the architect recalled him to Paris, that he might carry out the decoration in the dome of the Invalides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Renaissance details of the imaginative brain of François, down to the base concoction of the elder Mansart, produced at the commands of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2] Reference

Lemercier shares with Mansart and Le Muet the glory of representing French architecture most brilliantly under Louis XIII and Richelieu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

The stables of Versailles, to the right, and left, are from the designs of Mansart, in the form of a crescent, and have the appearance of princely residences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.] Reference

February 1684 to Noisy-le-Sec, where 124 girls were educated; then, in 1686, to Saint-Cyr, to the magnificent buildings which Mansart had begun to construct in June 1685.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

The dome of Mansart floated ethereally above the budding trees and the long grey front of the building: drawing up into itself all the rays of afternoon light, it hung there like the visible symbol of the race's glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Innocence] Reference

XIV by Mansart; the Petit Trianon was given by Louis XVI to Marie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

"The Cour Royale, and behind that the Cour de Marbre ... the palace Chapelle was started by Mansart in 1699, but Robert de Cotte finished it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Achille's Choice]

"It's the palace built by Le Vau and Mansart for Louis XIV.    From Wordnik.com.  [Achille's Choice]

(Also spelled Mansart).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Le Notre and Mansart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Mansart, François 322.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

Mansart, Jules Hardouin 320, 321, 322.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

François Mansart, French architect, dies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public marks] Reference