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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



Ecouen, of which the three wings enclosing the court had been built 

 some years (Fig. 60). Goujon made the chapel fittings (Fig. 126), and 

 perhaps also designed some of the dormers and the screen which closed 

 the court on the east (destroyed in the eighteenth century). If this is 

 the case, it is his first important architectural work and the only one of 

 his career in which he is not known to have had a collaborator. It has 

 considerable analogy with the Breze monument, consisting as it does of 

 two orders of coupled columns on pedestals on each side of a square- 

 headed opening below and an arched recess above. The traditional 

 equestrian statue of the lord of the house stood, not as in the Breze 

 tomb, in the arched upper storey, but in the attic under a curved canopy 

 supported by caryatids. 



PIERRE LESCOT. Goujon at this time seems to have come into 

 contact with Lescot, with whom for many years he worked in 

 collaboration. A native probably of Paris, and a member of a family 

 in easy circumstances belonging to the noblesse de robe, or legal 



126. ECOUEN : ORGAN GALLERY IN CHATEAU CHAPEL. 



