Bruant, Libéral
Bruant, Libéral or Bruand, Libéral (c.1635–97). Architect of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris (1670–7), with its severely Antique arcaded cour d'honneur, and long Church of St-Louis des Invalides (the Dôme was added later by Mansart). Bruant was responsible for the Chapel of St-Louis in the Salpêtrière Hospital (c.1670), with a rotunda surrounded by four compartments forming a Greek cross on plan, and four chapels at the angles of the central space. Eight compartments were formed in which the inmates could be separately accommodated.
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Blunt (1982);
Hautecœur (1948);
Reuterswärd (1965)
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