THE STYLES OF HENRY IV. AND LOUIS XIII. 



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by refusing to make a final choice among the alternatives he had sub- 

 mitted at Colbert's request, remarking " that he could never consent to 

 tie his hands, and that, so as to deserve the honour His Majesty 

 intended for him, he wished to reserve the power of always doing 

 better." 



LE VAU. Some of the early work of his younger contemporary, 

 Louis Le Vau or Le Veau (16 [2-70), who became one of the chief 

 architects of Louis XIV., still belong to the Louis XIII. style. 



SECULAR ARCHITECTURE. 



THE LOUVRE AND TUILERIES. Henry IV. was almost as enthusi- 

 astic a lover of the arts as Francis I., and no less intent on building. 

 Almost all the royal palaces were enlarged by him, if he created none. 

 The history of his buildings at the Louvre and Tuileries has not yet 



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222. LOUVRE GRANDE GALERIE : ELEVATION. FROM BLONDEI,. No SCALE. 



been thoroughly disentangled. The upper storeys of the eastern half 

 of the Grande Galerie and possibly those of the Petite Galerie seem 

 to have been carried out under Louis Metezeau. Du Perac was prob- 

 ably the architect of the western half of the Grande Galerie, which 

 was nearly completed at his death (1601), with some degree of assist- 

 ance from Jacques II. du Cerceau, to whom the Pavilion de Flore at 

 the south-west angle of the palace is possibly, and the Galerie de 

 Diane connecting it with Bullant's block at the Tuileries certainly, 

 due (1601-9). Whether he designed the central pavilion of the 

 Tuileries with its elliptical dome and its angle cupolas is not known. 

 Grande Galerie: Eastern Half. The architectural tendency of 

 these various buildings, only a small portion of which is now in existence, 

 is diverse (Fig. 222). In the portions assumed to be Louis Metezeau's 

 work existing buildings largely determined the character of the design. 

 The original Grande Galerie was intended to be a single storeyed build- 



