Jules hardouin mansart biography of barack obama

French architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart is considered to be one of the most important European architects of the 17th Century. Like his great-uncle, architect Francois Mansart, Mansart was a proponent of the Baroque style of architecture, and created some of the most famous buildings of his time.

Mansart was actually born Jules Hardouin, and was related to his great-uncle through marriage.

Hardouin, however, so sure of his future architectural pursuits, took on the Mansart last name and was henceforth known as Jules Hardouin-Mansart, or just Mansart for short. Mansart did study under this great-uncle Francois (as well as Libéral Bruant, who designed Les Invalides, the royal veterans hospital in Paris), and was an early adopter of the classical French Baroque style that Francois originated; upon his great-uncle’s death, Mansart was bequeathed the entire collection of papers, plans, and drawings.

Mansart’s career began early an