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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRAXCK. 



172. PARIS: HOTEL DE LAMOIGNON. 



These elevations may profitably be compared with those of Char- 

 leval. 



OTHER CHATEAUX. The new building at the chateau of Joigny 

 (begun 1569) has some interesting bits of classical composition very 

 sober for the time. On the outer faces the ashlar is pecked over to 

 make the pilasters stand out. The outer gatehouse (Fig. 170) added 

 by Coligny to his chateau of Tanlay (1570) is an excellently pro- 

 portioned building with effective use of rustication to give strength to 

 the basement, the blocks being treated with patterns of anchors, waves, 

 and ropes in lieu of vermiculation and in allusion to the owner's office 

 of admiral. The impressive piles of Louppy (Fig. 171) and Cons-la- 

 Grandville, built at this period in Lorraine, similar in their situation 

 on the precipitous edge of a plateau and in their massive square 

 pavilions with unusually lofty hipped roofs, differ in the mode of treat- 

 ment of the elevations : the former has three orders of pilasters, while 

 in the latter the gaunt walls are accentuated merely by the elaborate 

 treatment of the sparsely set windows. In each, individual features 

 afford examples of rich and striking, if coarse, decoration. 



TOWN HOUSES : HOTEL LAMOIGNON. Paris possesses an important 

 late sixteenth century mansion in the Hotel Lamoignon Rue (Fig. 172), 

 formerly known as Hotel d'Angouleme from Diane de France (1538- 

 1619), Duchess of Angouleme, a daughter of Henry II. and probably 

 of Diane de Poitiers, for whom it was built. It consists of a principal 



