biography
pronunciation:
[luh mairseeay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1585–1654)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Pontoise, NC France, regarded as one of three major creators of the French classical style, along with François Mansart and Louis le Vau. He studied in Rome (c.1607–c.14), and on his return became architect to Richelieu. He built the Pavillon de l'Horloge at the Louvre (1644), the domed church of the Sorbonne (1635), and Richelieu's palace, later the Palais-Royal (1633). He also built the Oratoire Church and the Church of Saint-Roche, and succeeded Mansart at the Val-de-Grâce in 1646. |
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