Mansart

The Pierre’s elaborate crown, modelled on Charles Mansart’s Chapelle Royale at Versailles, says “classic, rich New York”, which is perhaps why The Pierre has been the setting for a raft of films.

Now Simon Mansart lay very ill, and it was said that he was dying.

In September of that year, at the suggestion of Mansart, the first was held in the Louvre.

That part of the structure built by Mansart for Gaston d'Orleans appears strange, solemn, and superfluous in connection with the sumptuousness of the earlier portions.

The mansard roof, where the topmost stories pitch back at an angle, takes its name from �������ç�Ǿ��� Mansart, the 17th-century French architect who used it extensively.