THE STYLE OF HENRY II. 



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BAR-LE-DUC : HOUSE, PLACE ST 

 PIERRE. 



174. DIJON : HOTEL CHAMBELLAN. 



block at the back with its entrances in short return wings at the ends, 

 and of a perhaps slightly later left wing. Its giant Corinthian pilasters 

 and high arched pedimented dormers are very characteristic of the 

 period. So monumental is the total effect that one does not at first 

 feel the unsatisfactoriness of the arrangement by which, in order to get 

 greater depth for the dormers, their sills are brought down into the 

 entablature, the frieze and cornice occurring only in the form of 

 ressauts over the pilasters. The continuous architrave is thus virtually 

 the main cornice of the house, and the unknown architect has 

 endeavoured, with some success, to adapt it to fill this function by 

 underlining it with a frieze of panels ranging with the capitals. The 

 treatment of the end projections with a full attic and a curved pediment 

 on each exposed side gives an effective finish to the elevation. 



HOUSES IN DIJON, &c. In Dijon several interesting houses of the 

 late sixteenth century remain, generally attributed to Hugues Sambin, 

 who, however, appears to have been rather a wood-carver and cabinet- 

 maker than an architect. A more reasonable attribution is to Etienne 

 Bruhee, the architect of part of the Palais de Justice. They are char- 

 acterised by a distinctly decorative sense expressed in rather debased 



