A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . V/W rf/myi-rfiii </u ihahau </, / r/wii/IiS. ;•/i/i id Iiittitti tt Or^rt daprtj 1a tlAiiu-il f^r f. Mmjtnt . OENERAI, VUCW OF VERSAILLES FROM S. Pl. lxix. AND ENGRAVED liV P. MEN ANT, I714 ,/,?,;•,-«./..- II:. [I. vv. 1S4, 1S5 JULES HARDOUIN MANSART 185 accuracy in minor details. His natural taste was florid, even coarse,and owinor to Mazarins neglect of his education, nothinof had beendone to improve it. The academic refinements of Perrault made noappeal to him. What he wanted was
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . V/W rf/myi-rfiii </u ihahau </, / r/wii/IiS. ;•/i/i id Iiittitti tt Or^rt daprtj 1a tlAiiu-il f^r f. Mmjtnt . OENERAI, VUCW OF VERSAILLES FROM S. Pl. lxix. AND ENGRAVED liV P. MEN ANT, I714 ,/,?,;•,-«./..- II:. [I. vv. 1S4, 1S5 JULES HARDOUIN MANSART 185 accuracy in minor details. His natural taste was florid, even coarse,and owinor to Mazarins neglect of his education, nothinof had beendone to improve it. The academic refinements of Perrault made noappeal to him. What he wanted was a robust, aggressive, full-bloodedvulgarian. He found his man in J. H. Mansart, and having oncebroken loose from the restraint of Colbert, the two ran riot unre-strained at Versailles. The oriijinal building at Versailles was merelv a hunting-box ofLouis XIII, quite a small and rather charming house of brick andstone in the old country-house manner of Henri IV. It was builtmost probably about 1624, and designed by an otherwise unknownman, Le Roy.^ Louis XIII was a keen sportsman and a man of modesttastes, and the old chateau was built merely to house the King and hissuite for a night or two on his hunting expeditions. Saint-Simon con-temptuously c
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