A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . uz 2 a, QZ o as o Z z w [I. ro FACE r. 1^0 Pl. xlix. 1. To IACli 1. 151J JEAN MAROT 151 he designed the Mausoleum in S. Denis set up at the funeral ofHenrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. It is not clear whether thiswas a catafalque set up for the occasion only, or a permanent monu-ment. There is now no trace of it, and the probability is that it wasa temporary affair like the design for the Echevins of Paris madein 1649. Marots most ambitious effort was a vast design of a palacemade for the Electo
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . uz 2 a, QZ o as o Z z w [I. ro FACE r. 1^0 Pl. xlix. 1. To IACli 1. 151J JEAN MAROT 151 he designed the Mausoleum in S. Denis set up at the funeral ofHenrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. It is not clear whether thiswas a catafalque set up for the occasion only, or a permanent monu-ment. There is now no trace of it, and the probability is that it wasa temporary affair like the design for the Echevins of Paris madein 1649. Marots most ambitious effort was a vast design of a palacemade for the Elector Palatine at Mannheim, a city founded in 1606,destroyed after the Thirty Years War, and again in 1689. Ican find nothine more about this design, which was never carriedout. He also engraved his designs for a bathing place to be formedat the end of the garden at Maisons next the river, but these were notcarried out. Indeed this seems to have been the fate of most of hisinventions. The church of the Feuillantines in the Rue du FaubourgS. Jacques is attributed to Marot, both by Blondel and Piganiol de laForce, who unkindly says that it is a pity t
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