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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



with niches below 

 and round-headed 

 windows above ; it 

 is carried out in 

 forms whose clum- 

 siness contrast 

 strongly with the 

 elegance of those of 

 the rectangular 

 chapel of St Remain, 

 or Haute Vieille 

 Tour, in the market- 

 place at Rouen 

 (1542), which con- 

 sists of an open two- 

 storeyed pavilion 



( Fl 'g- I95X in the 

 upper one of which 

 a prisoner was re- 

 leased on Ascension 

 day on thrice raising 

 the saint's shrine, 

 "la Fierte de St 

 Romain." Above is 

 a graceful lantern in 

 three stages. 



MAUSOLEUM 

 CHAPEL, ANET. 

 Of quite another 

 order is the chapel 

 built at Anet out- 

 side the chateau 



as a mausoleum for Diane de Poitiers and her children. In plan it 

 is an aisleless basilica with waggon-vaulted nave terminating in a 

 small apse, a rectangular chapel or sacristy north and south of the 

 nave near the east end making it approximately cruciform (Figs. 197 

 and 198). Built probably between 1560 and 1566, this chapel is not 

 likely to be by de 1'Orme, who was then working for the Queen- 

 Mother, and whose style it does not recall, but may be by Jean Bullant, 

 the architect of the Duchess' old ally, Montmorency. The facade 

 (Fig. 196), which, though of no great size, is very monumental in 

 effect, is also finely detailed, consists of one full storey and an attic. 

 The former is almost identical in composition with the lower storey at 

 Le Mesnil-Aubry. 



195. ROUEN : CHAPEL OF ST ROMANUS, OR 

 " HAUTE VIEILLE TOUR." 



