built in the same manner". But an avid other, Édouard Fournier, is of an opinion all opposed one: "The gigantic door of the hotel Desmarets, one of the masterpieces by the better student of Mansart, Lassurance, serves today entry to the passage of the Panoramas, opposite the small street of Montmorency." The masterpiece of Lassurance was no doubt Château de Petit-Bourg, constructed for the Duke of Antin between 1716 and 1722. Notes Bibliography Gallet, Michel (1995). Les Architectes Parisiens du XVIIIe siècle : Dictionnaire biographique et critique, "Pierre Cailleteau dit Lassurance", pp. 281–284. Paris: Mengès. . Neuman, Robert (1996). "Lassurance family . (1) Pierre Lassurance I", vol. 18, pp. 815–816, in The Dictionary of Art, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner, reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. London: Macmillan. . 1655 births 1724 deaths 17th-century French architects 18th-century French architects