A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . he King was insatiable E. Cazes, Le Chateau de Versailles, p. iS. M. Cazes says Jacques Gabriel, A. LePautre, Claude Perrault, Vigarani, and Louis Le Vau took part in this competition; butJacques Gabriel was a mason, and in 1668 was paid 21,000 francs for masonry at Ver-sailles. There is no reference to this competition in the memoirs of Charles Perrault, andthe only Vigarani referred to in the Comptes is a certain Carlo Vigarani who supplieddecorations for a theatre in 1664, and did certain repa
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . he King was insatiable E. Cazes, Le Chateau de Versailles, p. iS. M. Cazes says Jacques Gabriel, A. LePautre, Claude Perrault, Vigarani, and Louis Le Vau took part in this competition; butJacques Gabriel was a mason, and in 1668 was paid 21,000 francs for masonry at Ver-sailles. There is no reference to this competition in the memoirs of Charles Perrault, andthe only Vigarani referred to in the Comptes is a certain Carlo Vigarani who supplieddecorations for a theatre in 1664, and did certain repairs with Lulli to the Salle desComedies at the Palais Royal in 1674 (Comptes, 51, 81, 746, 913). ? It appears from this view that the windows on the first floor as left by Le Vau weresquare-headed with Doric pilasters between. Mansart altered this to semicircular headswith an Ionic order. Saint-Simon. Elsewhere Saint-Simon says of Mansart: II avoit Ian dapporterau roi des plans informes, mais qui lui mettoient le doigt sur la lettre, a cjuoi ce diilit;macon Iaidoit imperceptiblement. IL. LXX. a ^ Z H [l. lO KACK I. lS6 Fi,. LXXI
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