Pierre Corbineau
The Corbineau were attached to the school of Jean Bullant and like him, they liked to use the apparatus in bossing, the superposed orders, the friezes decorated with triglyphs.
[5] On July 10, 1630, Étienne and Pierre Corbineau made a commitment to the Benedictines of Laval [fr] to build their monastery, chapel, dormitories, refectory, chapter, parlours, etc.
On April 29, 1638, the first stone of the high altar of the Église Saint-Vénérand de Laval [fr] was laid and the work was completed the following year.
Jacques Salbert attributes the elevation of the main altarpiece to Corbineau at the Église des Cordeliers de Laval [fr].
In addition, a contract was signed on July 31, 1637 with Corbineau, "master architect", by which he promised to keep the altar of Saint-François of the église des Cordeliers de Laval finished for the first Sunday of Lent.
The altarpiece of the chapel of the Château du Verger au Coq [fr][19] in Saint-Germain-sur-Ille is attributed to Corbineau circa 1640.
For Jacques Salbert, it is much more likely that it is the jaspered marble balusters that adorn the grand staircase of the Château des Ducs de La Trémoille.
On December 27, 1642, the prosecutor of the Convent of the Ursulines of Château-Gontier, François Débonnaire,[24] signed an agreement with Ambroise, Antoine and Gilles Ravaux.
[25] They undertook to work from their profession in dormitories, in the church, in buildings other than the Ursulines feront bastir suivant et au désir du plan qui leur sera faict et fourni par Pierre Corbineau, maître architecte.
The work of the Palais du Parlement de Bretagne [fr] was interrupted by a plague epidemic in 1627; they did not resume until 1640 under the direction of Tugal Caris, Laval's prime contractor, and then by Pierre Corbineau[31] from 1647 to 1655.
On 13 January 1655, the Parliament awarded him 6,000 Livres for work not included in his contract, an amount that was to be paid to him after the completion of the structure and roofing.
During this period, Pierre Corbineau lived in Rennes, parish of Saint-Germain, or in la Talmouzière in Montgermont rather than in his Laval properties, which he left to the Houdault family.
After him, Corbineau, from 1654 to 1678, completed the superposition of the three orders and placed the coat of arms of Louis XIV above the immense window in the facade of the monument.
He brought the levels to their current height to 48 metres and added Louis XIV's motto: (Nec pluribus impar, the incomparable) on the pediment at the top of the facade.
Abbess Magdelaine de la Fayette presided over the construction of the Saint George Palace in Rennes in 1670 by Corbineau.
