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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



same architect, and both now destroyed. The plan is in each case a 

 square with four square angle projections. The central block con- 

 tains the principal rooms, with the offices below. The projections, 

 which are no longer mere turrets, contained a self-contained suite 

 on every floor, each provided with a corkscrew stair. At Challuau 

 (Fig. 70), the great stair is in a single straight flight in the 

 main block starting from the entrance in the centre of the front. 

 The chapel is over this, and its projecting apse forms a porch. 

 On the two side elevations open loggias, as at Madrid, connect the 

 pavilions. At La Muette (Fig. 69), where the projection of the 

 pavilions is greater, the entire chapel projects between them on one 

 elevation, and the staircase and entrance occupy similar projections 

 on the opposite one. The recesses on the side elevations are formed, 

 as it were, into external apses of semi-octagonal plan, possibly for use 

 as open-air theatres. 



NORTHERN PROVINCES. In Normandy are several notable ex- 

 amples of Francis I. chateaux. The main block of Fontaine Henri 

 ( c - J 535)> near Caen, offers an example of fantastically high roofs 

 and chimney-stacks (Fig. 43). In the delightful Manoir d'Ango 

 near Dieppe, is a manor-house with its farm buildings defended against 



71. CASTLE OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: VIEW IN COURT. 



