Mansart


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French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666)

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[12] Agence nationale de la recherche, "Projet MANSART," http:// www.agence-nationale-echerche.fr/?Project=ANR-08-MAPR0026.
(49a) * Reglant son allure sur la notre, l'automobile vira, penetra rue Mansart.
Fransua Mansart pavarde], gyvenamoji patalpa po stataus stogo slaitu (pastogeje) (TZZ); mauzoliejus [pgl.
Now lives in Paris with his wife and children and has a gymnasium for the elite at 15 Rue Mansart. (40) THE AFRO-AMERICAN jazz that Rogers heard played in different cabarets in Montmartre in 1929 justified what he had written in "Jazz at Home." After writing "Jazz at Home" in 1925, Rogers was fortunate enough to witness for himself how Afro-American jazz music and dance influenced the French.
The answer to that question is one as much in accordance with the soteriological prophecies of Saint Stephen as with the formal concerns of Eugenius, the material worries of a playwright, or the absolute grandeur that was the aim of Mansart. Certainly, Dryden was still interested in aesthetic issues when he penned what would be his last preface; scrolling through the well-thumbed rolodex of the classical authors he had translated, he provides a final comparative analysis of their genius, and, as always, decides that the poet he had conversed with most recently is his favorite.
His right hand injured, Bullard abandoned the ring and eventually returned to Zelli's, although somewhat later he would open Bullard's Athletic Club at 15 Rue Mansart in the 9th Arrondissement, advertising Physical Culture, Boxing, Ping-Pong, and Hydrotherapy.
Mansart, required his dessinateur, Henri Lepautre, to create 'a novel sort of decoration' for Versailles.
In the 17th century a French architect named Francois Mansart invented the roof that bears his name.
His novels include Dark Princess: A Romance (1928) and a trilogy--The Ordeal of Mansart (1957), Mansart Builds a School (1959), and Worlds of Color (1961), collected as The Black Flame (1976).
Originally designed by a nephew of the renowned architect Mansart, the building boasts superb staircases, vaulted passageways and large terraces and, as an added bonus it overlooks the city, offering spectacular views of the Vieux Port and the very ornate Notre Dame de la Garde Basilica.