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The topography being quite generally nearly level, all 

 things were adapted to this. Terraces became broader, 

 greater areas of water were employed and the development 

 of the chateau appeared. Here we have the mediaeval idea 

 of the moat seized upon formalized and elaborated to a great 

 extent as at Fontainbleau and Chantilly. The highly or- 

 ganized axial arrangement of the Italian school was retained 

 in the French designs but the scale of everything was im- 

 mensely enhanced. It became no longer domestic or human 



GROUNDS OF HAMPTON COURT IN ENGLAND 



but superhuman, especially in the time of Louis XIV, the 

 self-styled Grand Monarch who firmly believed he was some- 

 thing more than human. 



He had LeNotre and Mansard design Versailles and 

 Chantilly with these motives in mind. In these estates 

 there was a greatness and a strong and simple relation of 

 parts one to another. The scale is always colossal and the 

 emphasis is rightly enough under the circumstances placed 

 not upon convenience but almost wholly upon appearance. 

 The purpose was to express magnificence and was for effect 

 wholly, and the results, while grand and impressive, are not 

 as exquisitely interesting as in some of the Italian work. 



