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(b c. 1637; d 1686). French architect. He married the great-niece of François Mansart in 1664 and thereby allied the Gabriel family to Jules Hardouin Mansart, the future Premier architecte du Roi. Active in Paris on royal works (including the Pont Royale) and the Hôtel de Condé, Jacques IV was a founder member of the Académie Royale d’Architecture. He collaborated with Jules Hardouin Mansart at Versailles and Clagny and, as Architecte Ordinaire du Roi, was one of the principals in the office of the Premier Architecte at Versailles. He was responsible in particular for the château of Choisy for Mlle de Montpensier from 1680. Clearly related to Clagny in its clear-cut horizontal lines, countered only by the tall rectangular windows and light rustication to the slight projections at salient points, its sparing use of the Orders and its sculptural detail, Choisy marks Jacques IV Gabriel as a major progenitor of the ‘noble simplicity’ that the school of Jules Hardouin Mansart inherited from such late Parisian works of François Mansart as the Hôtel Guénégaud in the Rue des Archives....