Libéral Bruant
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Libéral Bruant was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris. Bruant was the most notable member in a family that produced a long series of architects active fr
Statue of Libéral Bruant at the Louvre
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 Pala
Libéral Bruant
…largest hospice. It is now the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He designed the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, which is now dominated by the dome erected by Jules Hardouin Mansart, his collaborator in earlier stages of the construction. In the Marais district of Paris, the hôtel particulier Bruant built for himself in 1685, at 1…
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