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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



belonged, its joyousness, its naiive delight in classical allusion. Both 

 exhibit the same exuberance and redundancy, the same lack of pro- 

 portion, the same failure to subordinate detail to the design of the 

 whole. Both redeem these defects by their inventiveness and youthful 

 vitality. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STYLE OF 

 FRANCIS I. 



PLANS. Town houses and public buildings show little change of 

 plan. They retained largely the arrangement of the fifteenth century. 



42. CASTLE OF BURY, NEAR BLOIS (c. 1515-20). PLAN : FROM DU CERCEAU. 



In the chateau the changes were more marked, and included a continu- 

 ance of the tendencies, described in the preceding phase, towards 

 increase in accommodation, cheerfulness, and regularity. Yet the influ- 

 ence of the fortified castle remained paramount in determining the 

 general outline and distribution. The expense of pulling down massive 

 existing structures was often prohibitive, and even when this was done 

 the old foundations were sometimes utilised and governed the plan. 

 New requirements were more generally supplied by alterations and 



