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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



upper windows are made to break into the entablature. The pilasters 

 are rusticated not with de POrme's system of alternately long and short 

 courses, or that of approximately equal smooth and enriched courses as 

 in the Louvre galleries, but with that used in certain parts of Monceaux, 

 where each course from top to bottom was rusticated, imparting an air 



of strength to the 

 building. The win- 

 dows, of which there 

 is a pair in each bay, 

 have their jambs 



f 



rusticated in the 

 same manner, and 

 the detail elevations 

 show an infinity of 

 alternative treat- 

 ments for these bays 

 for use doubtless in 

 different parts of 

 the palace. They 

 involve, certainly, 

 some of the debased 

 characteristics of 

 the period, but 

 evince an immense 

 ingenuity and know- 

 ledge of the possi- 

 bilities of classical 

 design. 



BAPTISTE DU 

 CERCEAU. Of the 

 work of du Cer- 

 ceau's sons at this 

 period little is 

 known. The elder, 

 Baptiste, appears to 

 have assisted his 

 father at Verneuil 

 and Charleval. In 



1575 he entered the service of Henry III., who appointed him 

 architect to the Louvre and Valois Mausoleum in succession to Lescot 

 and Bullant on their respective deaths (1578). In 1584 he held the titles 

 of Groom of the Chamber and Architect to the King, and seems to have 

 resigned them after Henry III.'s death; he died in 1590. Though 

 his practice in later life was an extensive one no example of his work 



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CHATEAU DU PAILLY : ELEVATION OF 

 ENTRANX-E BAY IN COURT. 



