François Mansart
French architect
Died when: 68 years 253 days (824 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
François Mansart (French pronunciation: ?[f??~swa m?~sa?]; 23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France.
The Encyclopædia 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, popularized the mansard roof, a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope which created additional habitable space in the garrets.
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