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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



of galleries carried along the Seine (Fig. 222). A one-storeyed loggia 

 with terrace roof was built, running from the south-west angle of the 

 Louvre towards the river. The author of this very chaste design, whose 

 decoration consists in an alternation of smooth bevelled projecting 



courses, enhanced 

 by black marble pil- 

 asters and tablets, 

 and in figures 

 of Fame, "Renom- 

 mees," in the span- 

 drils of the arches by 

 Barthelemi Prieur, is 

 not known. Pierre 

 "Sambiche," who 

 worked on it, pos- 

 sibly a son of the 

 Pierre Chambiges 

 employed by Francis, 

 was no more than 

 a contractor, and 

 Lescot may well have 

 been the architect. 

 This gallery came 

 to be known as the 

 " Petite Galerie"( Fig. 

 1 60), in contradis- 

 tinction to the neigh- 

 bouring "Grande 

 Galerie " along the 

 Seine partly built at 

 the same time (1566- 

 72). The two were at 

 first separated by an 

 existing building on 



E the site of the present 



"Salledes Antiques." 

 The first instalment 



160. THE LOUVRE: "PETITE GALERIE" (LOWER 

 STOREY, 1566; UPPER STOREY, c. 1596; ATTIC, 

 53) 



of the wing which 

 eventually connected 

 the two palaces reached from this to the " Pavilion Lesdiguieres," and 

 was a one-storeyed gallery. Its decoration consists in a much enriched 

 Doric order of pilasters with a charming sculptured frieze, and in bands 

 of rustication either vermiculated or treated with other devices.* 



* See notes on pp. 141 and 167. According to M- Batiffol's view, Lescot's 1549 



