THE STYLE OF HENRY II. 



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BULLANT'S LATER WORKS. On the death of de 1'Orme and 

 Primaticcio, Jean Bullant became architect to the King and the 

 Queen-Mother. He carried on the work of the Valois Mausoleum, 

 may have designed the upper storey of the Aile de la Belle Cheminee 

 at Fontainebleau, and certainly worked at the Tuileries. At de 1'Orme's 

 death only the central portion of the garden front was built. Bullant 

 added a pavilion at the end of the southern gallery (see plan, Fig. 158) 

 (1570-72). In doing so, he substituted a plain order for the banded 

 one, and introduced split and reversed pediments and a highly ornate 

 attic storey. Catharine, however, soon abandoned the idea of going 

 further with the building (1572), and Bullant was instructed to build 



161. CHATEAU OF CHENONCEAUX : DE L'ORME'S SCHEME OF ENLARGEMENT. 

 PLAN. FROM nu CERCEAU. 



her a smaller but still important mansion within the city walls, on 

 the site of the present Bourse du Travail (formerly Halle aux 

 files), in which the only relic of Catharine's mansion, a turret in 

 the form of a Doric column, is incorporated. No clear idea of this 

 last work of the master can be formed from extant illustrations. 

 Descriptions speak of this Hotel de la Reine, or, as it was called 

 later " Hotel de Soissons," as a gloomy pile, but commend its chapel 

 and fountain. 



Du CERCEAU'S LATER WORKS. Du Cerceau seems to have obtained 



scheme included both the Petite Galerie (as a single-storeyed loggia) and the Grande 

 Galerie as far as the Pavilion Lesdiguieres (designed as at present with two storeys 

 and a mezzanine). 



