26 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



21. INTERIOR. 22. EXTERIOR. 



HOTEL D'ALLUYE, BI.OIS : LOGGIA IN COURTYARD. 



of Renaissance profile, but the mouldings are recessed ; the strings 

 terminate in ressauts of semicircular plan resting on knots of foliage, 

 and hood moulds return partly down the sides of windows and are 

 carried on corbels. The beautiful galleries in the court are of the 

 style of the following reign and appear to have been built later than 

 the rest, possibly to replace wooden ones. 



HOTEL D'ALLUYE. The Hotel d'Alluye at Blois is a good, if some- 

 what over-restored, specimen, built about 1512 by Florimond Robertet, 

 a minister of Louis XII., as his town residence when his duties claimed 

 his presence at Court. The street front is the earlier portion and much 

 more Gothic than the court, which has a charming arcaded loggia in 

 two storeys, enriched with refined Italian ornament. In the parapet are 

 set terra-cotta medallions of Italian origin (Figs. 21 and 22), and a fine 

 painted chimney-piece within is without trace of Gothic influence. 



ARCHBISHOP'S PALACE, SENS. That part of the Archbishop's Palace 

 at Sens, known as the Louis XII. wing, was built by Archbishop Ponchet, 

 whose beribboned scallop shells occur in the decoration, and completed 

 by 1521. The date of the lower storey can hardly have been later than 

 1515. The entrance to a covered way leading from the street to the 

 court (Fig. 24) is a charming specimen of the blending of the two styles 

 in equal proportions ; some features in the court show a stronger leaning 

 to Gothic, while the upper storey is almost pure Francis I. The windows 

 (Fig. 23), which occur between pilasters, have receding mouldings of 



