Jules Hardouin-Mansart made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Jules Hardouin-Mansart as French Baroque architect (1646–1708).
Jules Hardouin-Mansart was born at Paris in 1646. His recorded nationality is France.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart is described as architect and artist.
Among his principal works are Grand commun, Grand Trianon and Château de Chazeron. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Knight of the Order of Saint Michael.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1708, at 62. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of Saint Michael
- Notable work: Grand commun
- Notable work: Grand Trianon
- Notable work: Château de Chazeron
- Notable work: Palace of Versailles
- Worked as architect and artist
