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Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 May 1667 — Paris 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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Germain Boffrand Boffrand built a series of hôtels particuliers in Paris as speculative business enterprises.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy The architect Germain Boffrand had built a series of magnificent hôtels particuliers in the new district, the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and Colbert de Torcy purchased one as a semi-finished shell, 14 November 1715, which he finished as a suitable Paris residence, the hôtel de Torcy (later the hôtel de Beauharnais, now the German Embassy 78, rue de Lille).

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Germain Boffrand Boffrand built a series of hôtels particuliers in Paris as speculative business enterprises.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy The architect Germain Boffrand had built a series of magnificent hôtels particuliers in the new district, the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and Colbert de Torcy purchased one as a semi-finished shell, 14 November 1715, which he finished as a suitable Paris residence, the hôtel de Torcy (later the hôtel de Beauharnais, now the German Embassy 78, rue de Lille).

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Charles-Joseph Natoire A major loss was his illusionistic decor for the chapel in the Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés (1746-1750), built by Germain Boffrand but demolished in the 19th century.

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Château de Champs-sur-Marne Later, it was finally sold to comte Louis Cahen d'Anvers in 1895, who thoroughly restored it, installing boiseries designed by Germain Boffrand that had been removed from the Hôtel de Mayenne, Paris, and recreated its parterre gardens in the hands of Achille Duchêne.

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Germain Boffrand High altar of the cathedral of Nancy, which had been begun by Mansart in 1703 and was continued by Boffrand after Mansart's death.

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    Germain Boffrand

    Germain Boffrand (16 May 1667 — 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself.
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    List of French people

    French people of note include: ... Germain Boffrand
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    National Museum of American Illustration

    The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI), founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork. ... The American Imagist Collection is housed in the Carrère and Hastings designed Vernon Court, an adaptation of an 18th century French chateau (Chateau Haroue), by architect Germain Boffrand.
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    Château de Commercy

    The Château de Commercy is a Château in the town of Commercy, itself in the Meuse Department of France. ... In 1708, Charles Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudémont and illegitimate son of the Duke of Lorraine began to reconstruct the old building in the 18th century to designs by Germain Boffrand.
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    Charles-Joseph Natoire

    Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751-1775. ... A major loss was his illusionistic decor for the chapel in the Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés (1746-1750), built by Germain Boffrand but demolished in the 19th century.
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    Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach

    Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, also Fischer von Erlach the younger (13 September 1693 in Vienna; 29 June 1742 in Vienna) was an Austrian architect of the baroque, Rococo and baroque classicism. ... From 1717-1719, he was in France with the French court master-builder Robert de Cotte, the architect Germain Boffrand, and with the philologist Bernard de Montfaucon.
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    Château de Lunéville

    The Château de Lunéville which had belonged to the Dukes of Lorraine since the thirteenth century, was rebuilt as “the Versailles of Lorraine” by Duke Léopold from 1703 to 1723, from designs of Pierre Bourdict and Nicolas Dorbay and then of the Parisian architect Germain Boffrand, whose masterwork it became. Lunéville was classed as a monument historique in 1901 and by successive ordonances.; its princely apartments are looked after by the Ministry of Defense while the structure is the responsibility of the Conseil Général de Meurthe-et-Moselle....
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    Jules-Robert de Cotte

    Jules-Robert de Cotte (1683–1767) was a renowned French architect, the son of one of the most highly regarded architect-administrators of his era, Robert de Cotte.... ... In 1723, top German architect Balthasar Neumann came to Paris in order to study the latest French stylistic developments of the emerging Rococo and consulted Robert de Cotte, as well as Jules-Robert, whose reputation with Neumann was as good as his father and surpassing that of another brilliant contemporary French architect, Germain Boffrand, an assessment that modern...
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    Jean-Michel Chevotet

    Jean-Michel Chevotet (11 July 1698 – 4 December 1772) was a French architect. ... On the death of Germain Boffrand in 1754, he became a member of the first rank of the Academie.
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    Château d'Haroué

    The château de Craon, also known as the château d'Haroué or palais d'Haroué is a French château located in a small valley in the centre of the village of Haroué, in the Saintois, in the département of Meurthe-et-Moselle and 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 de Beauvau-Craon, viceroy of Tuscany and constable of Lorraine.

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