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RKXAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



diamond-point rustication 

 (Figs. 149 and 150). On 

 the right of the court as 

 one enters is an overhang- 

 ing gallery corbelled out 

 on mighty consoles from 

 the party wall. At the 

 back and to the left (Fig. 

 152) are the main wings 

 of the house with entrance 

 and stairs in a tower at 

 their junction (Fig. 152). 

 They have three orders of 

 engaged columns, and in 

 the two lower blind 

 arcades as well, the 

 square - headed windows 

 breaking into the tympana 

 of the arches as at Ancy- 

 le- Franc. In the top 

 storey the windows are 

 round-headed and flanked 

 by circular or oval panels, 

 which also occur in the 

 spandrils of the loggia 

 arcade. Another and very 

 elegant type of window 

 treatment also occurs, in 

 which the lower half is 

 flanked by double pil- 

 asters, and the upper by 

 single pilasters, and re- 

 versed scrolls carrying 

 pediments. This hotel, 

 in which the beauty of 

 individual parts is not 

 more remarkable than the 

 total design, is almost cer- 

 tainly by Nicolas Bachelier, 

 as are also the additions 

 to the Hotel Lasbordes 



( : 557)> consisting of the two wings and their connecting screen. 

 These are principally noticeable for the treatment of the windows 

 (Fig. 127), whose tendency to over elaboration is redeemed by the 





149. TOULOUSE : HOTEL D'ASSEZAT, PROBABLY 

 BY N. BACHELIER (1555). ENTRANCE. 



