THE STYLES OF HENRY IV. AND LOUIS XIII. 



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223. LOUVRE COURT: PAVILLON PE L'HORLOGE OR SULLY, I;Y J. LE 

 MERCIER (1624-30). FROM MARIETTE. 



Louvre Court. Louis XIII. had small love for the Louvre, and 

 preferred his little hunting-box at Versailles, but Richelieu had higher 

 ideas of the dignity of the monarchy and deemed that the royal palace 

 in the capital should be placed beyond all competition from those of 

 the nobility. Lescot's scheme, whatever its artistic merits, could not 

 strike the imagination by overwhelming size, and it was decided to 



