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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



Andre Sourdeau 



( I 534-43>- At 

 Beaugency the 

 Hotel de Ville is a 

 very charming little 

 edifice (1526), in- 

 cluding two shops 

 (Fig. 79), attributed, 

 like that of Orleans, 

 to Charles Viart. 

 If this be correct, 

 he had learned by 

 this time to elimi- 

 nate the Gothic 

 elements which still 

 appeared in his 

 earlier work. 



The city hall at 

 Toulouse known as 

 the Capitol, was 

 added to at this 

 time, and its gate- 

 way (now removed 

 to the Jardin des 

 Plantes) is one of 

 the least doubtful 

 works of Nicolas 

 Bachelier (born 

 1485, died c. 1572), 

 to whom every Re- 

 naissance building 

 in the district is 

 ascribed. His 

 father, a native of 

 Lucca and a pupil 

 of Brunelleschi, had 

 settled at Toulouse. 

 Nicolas went to 

 Italy about 1510 

 and worked under 

 Michael Angelo ; 

 returning to ply the calling of a master-mason and sculptor, he 

 exercised a great influence on the architectural development of south- 

 western France. 



77. ORLEANS: HCHTSE KNOWN AS " MAISON DE 

 LA COQUILLE" (c. 1540). 



