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had reached manhood when Rosso arrived in France. The dates of 

 the birth of Jean Goujon, Philibert de 1'Orme, Jacques Androuet du 

 Cerceau, and Pierre Lescot cannot be exactly fixed, but it is almost 

 certain that they occurred in the first fifteen years of the century. It is 

 probable that Jean Bullant was born rather later, perhaps about 1525. 

 Italian travel was becoming the recognised preliminary to architectural 

 distinction, and three at least of the five qualified themselves in this 

 way. Whether Goujon and Lescot went to Italy as young men is not 

 recorded, but the character of their work suggests its probability, 

 though in the former's case there is the alternative possibility of 

 having obtained his knowledge indirectly via the Low Countries. 



JACQUES ANDKOUET DU CERCEAU. What Jacques Androuet du 

 Cerceau's training may have been before the years he spent in study at 

 Rome (1530-33) is not known. On his return (1534), he set up a 

 studio at Orleans probably his native place for the engraving of 

 drawings of an architectural and decorative nature, and from this time 

 to the end of a long life he never flagged in the publication of works 

 intended to educate his countrymen in Renaissance design and to supply 

 those, who could not themselves visit Italy, with information on her 

 monuments both ancient and modern. Whether he had an opportunity 

 of carrying out buildings at this period is uncertain. If he did so 

 they were almost certainly in the style of Francis I., for du Cerceau 

 did not come back from Italy a full-blown adherent of the Roman 

 Renaissance. His whole career was one of growth, keeping pace with, 

 but hardly outstripping, that of France as a whole. Consequently it is 

 not impossible that he may have been the architect of certain houses in 

 Orleans, such as those known as "de Jean d'Alibert" and " de la 

 Coquille " (Fig. 7 7), or the east end of the Madeleine church at Montargis 

 (begun in 1540). About this time he published a book of designs for 

 small chateaux, " Petites Habitations ou Logis Domestiques." He 

 appears to have embraced the Reformed doctrines and to have brought 

 up his sons, Baptiste and Jacques (born c. 1544-7), in them. 



JEAN GOUJON. Jean Goujon, a native of Normandy, was trained 

 as a mason and sculptor. The monument in the Lady Chapel of 

 Rouen Cathedral to Louis de Breze, the husband of Diane de Poitiers, 

 begun in 1535, and generally ascribed to him, would thus be the earliest 

 work of the advanced Renaissance in France by a Frenchman (Fig. 205). 

 About 1541 he made the marble columns supporting the organ loft at 

 St Maclou, and possibly the fountain outside the church, and perhaps 

 began the doors (Fig. 156), which were carried out for the most part later 

 OSSS' 60 )- By 1542 he had removed to Paris when, as penance for 

 attending a Lutheran sermon, he was condemned to walk through the 

 streets in his shirt and attend the burning of the preacher. He found 

 employment till 1544 for the Constable Montmorency, at his chateau of 



