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almost all from the time of the civil wars, more especially from 



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works of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the elder, who, by the popularity 

 of his published works, and the traditions handed down to his sons 

 and grandsons, as well as to other architect families which sprang from 

 Verneuil, such as those of Metivier and du Ry, exercised a profound 

 influence on the formation of seventeenth century architecture. 



HENRY IV. PHASE. It is a question how far a sharp distinction 

 can be drawn between the styles of Henry IV. and Louis XIII. If 

 a division into two periods be made, the earlier one, which may be 

 called the age of Henry IV., though it extends for some years after his 

 death, is one during which the architects were men trained under the 



later Valois, and the 

 arrangements of the six- 

 teenth century remained 

 unchanged, but out of a 

 number of conflicting 

 tendencies a sober, 

 homogeneous, architec- 

 tural style was formed, 

 culminating in the work 

 of Salomon de Brosse, 

 while in decoration a 

 tendency towards the 

 barocco manner of 

 Flanders was confirmed 

 by the visit of Rubens. 



Louis XIII. PHASE. 

 In the later period, 

 which may be called the 

 age of Louis XIII., 

 coinciding with the 

 ministry of Richelieu 

 (1624-42) and the 

 troubled years before 

 the final triumph of 

 Mazarin (1643-53), tne 

 altering requirements of 

 social life considerably 

 affected the accepted ar- 

 rangements, and, while 

 the style established in 

 the previous period per- 

 sisted in the main, it 

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