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    Germain Boffrand (French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁmɛ̃ bɔfʁɑ̃]) (16 May 1667 – 19 March 1754) was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain...
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    responsible for some interior décor at the Hôtel de Soubise engaging Germain Boffrand in the process. This dates from the 1730s. Improvements were made to...
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    surviving Rococo interiors designed in 1710–1713 by the French architect Germain Boffrand. Further west, at 19 rue de Vaugirard, is the Musée du Luxembourg....
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    were involved in the construction, as well as Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand, who were followers of the French style. Balthasar Neumann, court architect...
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    the salon of the Princess in Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, designed by Germain Boffrand and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1735 – 1740). The characteristics of French...
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    in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by architect Germain Boffrand. Its construction was completed in 1714. By 1803, the structure was...
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    architects. Born in Paris, he studied under Jacques-François Blondel, Germain Boffrand and Jean-Laurent Le Geay, from whom he learned the mainstream French...
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    (1699 to 1710) Salon of the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (1735–40) by Germain Boffrand The Late Baroque period in France saw the evolving decoration of the...
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    studied in France. At Paris and Versailles he met with royal architects Germain Boffrand and Robert de Cotte and consulted them on the Würzburg projects. Back...
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    as the "Versailles of Lorraine". It includes a chapel designed by Germain Boffrand. Leopold and his wife were the parents of Prince Charles Alexander...
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    remembered above all for the series of the History of Psyche for Germain Boffrand's oval salon de la Princesse in the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, and for...
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    the salon of the Princess in Hôtel de Soubise in Paris, designed by Germain Boffrand and Charles-Joseph Natoire (1735–1740). The characteristics of French...
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  • numerous projects Esplanade of Les Invalides Palais Rohan, Strasbourg Germain Boffrand (1667–1754) Château Lunéville Remodelling of the Petit Luxembourg Interiors...
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    the Hôtel de Soubise (Rue des Francs-Bourgeois no. 60), Paris, by Germain Boffrand, 1740 Neoclassical fireplace in the Bibliothèque de Louis XVI, Palace...
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    Joachim Daniel von Jauch, German baroque architect (born 1688) 16 May – Germain Boffrand, French architect (born 1667) 23 May – John Wood, the Elder, English...
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  • the Château d'Haroué, built between 1720 and 1732 by the architect Germain Boffrand for the first Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon. 1722–1754: Marc, Prince...
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  • Villechaize Mallory Wanecque Lambert Wilson Jacques-François Blondel Germain Boffrand Étienne-Louis Boullée Salomon de Brosse Libéral Bruant Androuet du...
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    panels covering the walls of a room) conceived by architects such as Germain Boffrand and Gilles-Marie Oppenord or ornemanistes (designers of decorative...
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    collection). No. 78: Hôtel Beauharnais (formerly Hôtel de Torcy), built by Germain Boffrand on land he bought in 1713 and sold to Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy...
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    Meurthe-et-Moselle in the région of Lorraine. It was built between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand during the period when Lorraine was independent of France, for Marc...
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    16th century, later rebuilt by Sully, and expanded by the architect Germain Boffrand in the 18th century. Paulmy had assembled a magnificent collection...
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    1734–1739 Salon Oval de la Princesse of the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, by Germain Boffrand, Charles-Joseph Natoire and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, 1737–1739 The Triumph...
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    was never built. Rastrelli was influenced by the French architects Germain Boffrand and Robert de Cotte; the great architects of Central Europe, from Balthasar...
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    fusion of the best ideas. Gabriel borrowed features of the proposals of Germain Boffrand, Pierre Contant d'Ivry and others. The most distinctive feature, the...
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    recruited numerous artists and architects for this work, including Germain Boffrand, who trained Emmanuel Héré. Hence, Stanislaus found a pool of talent...
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    was built in 1743 by Pierre-Louis Richard, on the plans of Gabriel-Germain Boffrand. It was originally separate from the church, but it was united with...
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    la plus basse; de mon lit, je la vois et passer tous les bateaux." Germain Boffrand, later an architect of repute, was paid this year for drawing plans...
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    responsible for some interior décor at the Hôtel de Soubise engaging Germain Boffrand in the process. This dates from 1730 to 1740. He outlived his wife...
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    arrangements of the park with the support of Joseph Effner, a student of Germain Boffrand. Girard managed to skillfully distribute the water in the formerly...
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    of Germain Boffrand titled "Recueil des oeuvres inédites de Germain Boffrand", which includes reproductions of some original drawings by Boffrand and...
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