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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



merely a hunting seat it would have been, if completed, one of the 

 largest residences in France. The mansion itself has a court of 

 honour 300 feet square, before which is a forecourt 500 feet square 

 with two smaller ones on each side of it, while to right and left of 

 the chateau proper are garden-courts enclosed in galleries, the site of 

 the entire building being equal to about 31 acres. The plan is 





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166. CHATEAU OF CHARLEVAL (PROBABLY BY J. A. nu CEPCEAU 

 THE ELDER). 



From a Draining by the Architect. 



purely rectilinear and an extremely beautiful and stately one (Fig. 

 1 66). The elevations are only known in a fragmentary manner, and 

 can scarcely be judged as a whole. The general scheme was one 

 of brick walling with stone dressings and was divided into bays by a 

 giant order of pilasters (Fig. 167). The giant order, though infinitely 

 more appropriately used than was the case in Bullant's work, does not 

 attain the simple logicalness of Monceaux, since the pediments of the 



