THE STYLE OP FRANCIS t. 16? 



GISORS, &c. The great church of St Gervais and St Protais at 

 Gisors (Figs, in and 177) exhibits specimens of every stage of develop- 

 ment traversed in the sixteenth century. The thirteenth-century choir 

 was surrounded with new chapels and the central tower flanked by new 

 transepts (Flamboyant) (1497-1521); the north portal was built; the 

 nave with its double aisles and chapels and the west front rebuilt 

 (mostly Louis XII., but the upper part and lantern of the north-west 

 tower Francis I.) (1515-41); the high vaults fell in (1541); the damage 

 was repaired and the works previously in progress completed (1547-58) ; 

 the south-west tower, and probably the upper parts of the central and 

 right-hand bays of the west front, were built (1559-75). The works 

 were carried out by Robert Grappin (died c. 1545), and his sons Jean I. 

 (died 1547), and Michel (died 1553), and after 1560 by his grandson 

 Jean II. Pierre de Montheroult, probably the designer of the south- 

 west tower, worked there from 1557 to 1560. 



CAEN, &c. The churches of St Remy and St Jacques at Dieppe, 

 the cathedral and St Taurin at Evreux, St Pierre at Dreux are rich 

 in Renaissance work, as are also several churches at Caen. At 

 St Pierre the four-sided apse (1521-28) (Fig. 113) has scarcely a trace 

 of the Renaissance, but the chevet chapels added round it immedi- 

 ately afterwards (1526-38), probably by Hector Sohier, are in luxuriant 

 Francis I. work. 



LA FERTE-BERNARD. The important church of Notre Dame-des- 

 Marais at La Ferte-Bernard was largely altered and furnished in the 

 sixteenth century by Mathurin Delaborde and the brothers Le Viet. 

 In spite of the long continuance of the work little advance is shown 

 in style, and Gothic traditions persisted to the end, side by side with 

 Francis I. elements. The nave transepts and tower were rebuilt and 

 the northern chapels begun (Flamboyant) (1450-1500). The southern 

 and eastern chapels and the south-western chapel or sacristy were 

 built (Louis XII. and Francis I.) (1520-44). The choir clearstorey and 

 flying buttresses were added (Louis XII.) (1575-96). 



CLOISTERS, MAUSOLEA. Monastic architecture is almost confined 

 to a few cloisters such as those of St Martin, Tours (Fig. 89), and 

 Fontevrault. But the age of Francis I. is rich in sepulchral architecture. 

 There are several examples of chapels built as family mausolea, generally 

 with some form of domical roof, as that at Blere (1526), and the chapel 

 of the Mistral family, or so-called " Pendentif de Valence" (c. 1549). 



TOMBS. Many Francis I. monuments, like those of the Gouffier 

 family at Oyron (1532-39) by Jehan Juste, are of the altar tomb type. 

 In the tomb of Louis XII. and Anne of Brittany, erected by Francis I. at 

 St Denis, the sarcophagus stands in an arcaded shrine carrying the kneel- 

 ing effigies and surrounded by allegorical figures on a broad pedestal. 

 It was executed mainly by Antoine and Jehan Juste (1517-31). 



