Jules Hardouin-Mansart
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires ; Place Vendôme ; the domed chapel of Les Invalides, and the Grand Trianon of the Pa
Portrait of Jules Hardoun Mansart by Hyacinthe Rigaud, with Les Invalides in background
Church of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris (1676–1691)
The outer dome conceals an inner dome, visible from below
Inner dome of Les Invalides, seen from below
Jacques Lemercier
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Jacques Lemercier was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from Frenc
Jacques Lemercier in 1644 by Philippe de Champaigne with the Sorbonne Chapel in the background
Lemercier's Pavillon de l’Horloge at the Louvre
Relief of ship anchors and prows, a surviving remnant of Lemercier's Palais-Cardinal
The chapel at the Sorbonne, 1635: prototype for Mansart's at Les Invalides.