THE STYLE OF FRANCIS I. 



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casual attack. The buildings 

 surround a large rectangular 

 court and are in stone with 

 squared flint diapers, a method 

 of decoration characteristic of 

 the district, while the stables and 

 byres are in half timber. A 

 richly patterned brick and stone 

 dovecot of circular plan and with 

 curved roof stands in the midst 

 of the court. 



In the north and east there 

 is little, except parts of Fleurigny 

 and of Bussy Rabutin in Bur- 

 gundy, and La Bastie d'Urfe near 

 Lyons (remodelled between 1535 

 and 1555), in the court of which 

 is a splendid open canopied stair- 

 case in straight flights. 



SOUTHERN PROVINCES. In 

 the south-western provinces are 

 La Rochefoucauld (Fig. 71) with 

 its fine spiral staircase and its 

 arcaded courtyard ; Usson, re- 

 built near Pons, of rich but 

 clumsy design, with a dove tower; 

 Assier, near Rodez, attributed to 

 Nicolas Bachelier of Toulouse, 

 and parts of the castle at Pau. 

 Portions of the destroyed 

 chateaux of Montal (1534) and 

 Bonnivet (begun 1528) are in 

 the Victoria and Albert Museum 

 at South Kensington. At St 

 Jean d'Angely, in the public 

 square, is a charming well- 

 house, removed there from 

 the chateau of Brizembourg 

 (Fig. 72). 



HOTELS: EASTERN PRO- 

 VINCES. Local characteristics 

 are not so marked in the chateaux 



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72. ST JEAN D'ANGELY : WELL-HOUSE 

 just enumerated as in many of FORMERLY IN CHATEAU OF BRIZEMBOURG. 

 the hotels Still to be found in Measured and Drawn by the Author. 



