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FDC France 'Francois Mansart' 1598-1666' Architect 1966
François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopaedia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
Mansart, as he is generally known, made extensive use of a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope, creating additional habitable space in the garrets[2] that ultimately became named for him – the mansard roof.
FDC France 'Francois Mansart' 1598-1666' Architect 1966
François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopaedia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
Mansart, as he is generally known, made extensive use of a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope, creating additional habitable space in the garrets[2] that ultimately became named for him – the mansard roof.