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second scheme (Figs. 164 and 165) this arrangement was abandoned in 

 favour of more massive single pavilions. In both the use of orders is 

 confined to the court and the entrance, and the external elevations are 

 decidedly severe. The coigns and plinths are rusticated, and the wall 

 surfaces panelled. The pavilions have square domes and their topmost 

 storey is broken by a curved pediment containing a circular light flanked 

 by trophies. Other central features in the design are crowned by what 

 may be described either as a semicircular pediment, or as an arch with 

 a broad frieze and cornice carried round it. Each one of these peculi- 

 arities, often followed in the seventeenth century, occurs here for the first, 

 or nearly the first, time, while the domical entrance pavilion with a giant 

 order and rusticated coigns found in some of the numerous sketch 

 designs for Verneuil is a variant of that 

 at Monceaux. This chateau was well 

 known to du Cerceau, since he took 

 many subjects for his books of "Gro- 

 tesques " from its decorations, and this 

 is not the only point in which it in- 

 fluenced him. Others may be traced in 

 some of the innumerable designs which 

 he made for his own instruction or for 

 publication, and by which he must be 

 judged at each period of his career, as 

 much as by executed work, or designs 

 intended for execution. 



CHARLEVAL. Of the chateau of 

 Charleval begun for Charles IX. in 1572 

 and discontinued soon after his death in 

 1 5 74 practically nothing remains. Though 



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