Preliminary reading
Jean-Pierre Babelon et Claude Mignot, François Mansart: le génie de l’architecture (Paris, 1988)
Hillary Ballon, Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s Collège, Colbert’s Revenge (Cambridge, 1999)
Robert W. Berger, A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as patron of architecture (Cambridge, 1994)
Alan Braham and Peter Smith, François Mansart (London, 1973).
**Anthony Blunt, Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (New Haven and London, 1999)
Rosalys Coope, Salomon de Brosse and the Development of the classical style in French Architecture from 1565 to 1630 (Lond, 1972)
Alexandre Gady, Jacques Lemercier: Architecte et Ingénieur du Roi (Paris, 2005)
Alexandre Gady, ed., Jules Hardouin-Mansart: 1646-1708 (Paris, 2010)
Anthony Gerbino, François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution (London, 2010)
Louis Hautecœur, Histoire de l’architecture classique en France (new edition: Paris, 1963- )
Wolfgang Herrman, The Theory of Claude Perrault (London, 1973)
Bertrand Jestaz, Jules Hardouin-Mansart (Paris, 2008)
Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Histoire de l’architecture français: de la Renaissance à la Révolution (Paris, 1989)
Antoine Picon, Claude Perrault, ou, La curiosité d’un classique (Paris, 1988)
Dora Wiebenson, French books, sixteenth through nineteenth centuries (Washington, 1993)
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