THE STYLE OF FRANCIS I. 



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no. TONNERRE: ST PIERRE. SOUTH SIDE. 



The massive tower with its spiral turret, the bold buttresses, the noble 

 recessed doorway with a gallery and elaborate gable above, all treated 

 in pure Francis I. detail, form a composition of remarkable beauty. 

 St Pierre was some seventy years in rebuilding (1535-1603), and shows 

 corresponding stylistic development (Fig. no). The great doorway 

 in the south transept is treated with as much charm and greater 

 reticence than that of Notre Dame. The south aisle elevations show 

 an approximation to Henry II. work, while the north transept has 

 considerable analogy, though in a severer manner, with the two fine 

 transept fronts at St Florentin, a large cruciform church in the neigh- 

 bourhood in which all the nave, but one bay, is lacking. The structure 

 is largely Flamboyant, and Renaissance work of various periods has been 

 interwoven into it in a perplexing manner. It is also a perfect museum 

 of Renaissance fittings of all phases. 



PONTOISE. At Pontoise, to the west of Paris, the church of St 

 Maclou underwent constant alterations during the sixteenth century. 

 The apse is of the twelfth century, and the bulk of the structure was of 

 the fifteenth. From 1524 to 1540 a double aisle and chapels were 



