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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 Baroque architecture of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Mansart has received more than 118,902 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). François Mansart is the 46th most popular architect (up from 57th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from France (up from 702nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Architect.

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

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, François Mansart ranks 46 out of 424. Before him are Vladimir Tatlin, I. M. Pei, Callicrates, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Rem Koolhaas, and Christopher Wren. After him are Arne Jacobsen, Richard Rogers, Richard Meier, Michelozzo, Carlo Maderno, and Kenzō Tange.

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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, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Johann Crüger, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Chen Hongshou, and Michael van Langren. Among people deceased in 1666, François Mansart ranks 4. Before him are Anne of Austria, Frans Hals, and Shah Jahan. After him are Abbas II of Persia, Guercino, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Luisa de Guzmán, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma, and Albert Eckhout.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Mansart ranks 629 out of 6,011. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Juliette Gréco (1927), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Camille Flammarion (1842), and Catherine of Valois (1401). After him are Jacques Maritain (1882), Maurice Béjart (1927), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Suzanne Valadon (1865), and Élisabeth of France (1764).

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Among ARCHITECTS In France

Among architects born in France, François Mansart ranks 4. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), and André Le Nôtre (1613). After him are Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Louis Le Vau (1612), Jean Nouvel (1945), Charles Garnier (1825), Hector Guimard (1867), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736).

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