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François Mansart

1598 - 1666

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François Mansart (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa mɑ̃saʁ]; 23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into the Baroque architecture of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Mansart has received more than 128,089 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). François Mansart is the 57th most popular architect (down from 45th in 2019), the 750th most popular biography from France (down from 628th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Architect.

François Mansart is most famous for being the architect of the Château de Versailles.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, François Mansart ranks 57 out of 518. Before him are Christopher Wren, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Giacomo della Porta, Richard Meier, Guarino Guarini, and Louis Le Vau. After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Jože Plečnik, Arno Breker, Giuliano da Sangallo, Aldo Rossi, and Buckminster Fuller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1598, François Mansart ranks 4. Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Bonaventura Cavalieri. After him are Eleonora Gonzaga, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Maarten Tromp, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Crüger, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Michael van Langren, and Daniele Crespi. Among people deceased in 1666, François Mansart ranks 5. Before him are Anne of Austria, Frans Hals, Shah Jahan, and Abbas II of Persia. After him are Guercino, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Senhime, Luisa de Guzmán, and Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Mansart ranks 750 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Edine Pottier (1816), Clotilde (475), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Charles Hermite (1822), Simon Vouet (1590), and François-André Danican Philidor (1726). After him are Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Robert Doisneau (1912), Joan II of Navarre (1311), Marie Laforêt (1939), Girard Desargues (1591), and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, François Mansart ranks 7. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), André Le Nôtre (1613), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Jean Nouvel (1945), and Louis Le Vau (1612). After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Charles Garnier (1825), Pierre Lescot (1515), Hector Guimard (1867), Claude Perrault (1613), and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700).

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