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Louvre are Henry's additions to St Germain and Fontainebleau. The 

 extent of Philibert de 1'Orme's scheme for the lay-out of the terraced 

 gardens at St Germain and the state of advancement it had reached 

 before Henry's time are not certain, but it is clear that they were 

 remodelled and the Chateau Neuf very much enlarged under Henry 

 IV. by du Perac, who added a court on either side of the original one 

 (1594) (Fig. 224). The buildings were mostly of one storey with brick 

 dressings and enriched plastered walling. The extended river front 

 terminated in pavilions with square domes, one of which is almost the 

 only relic of the palace. In front of this he laid out a stately scheme 

 of terraces, under which ran crypto-porticoes, and of steps leading 

 down to an enclosed parterre. His great influence on garden design is 

 acknowledged by Claude Mollet, the king's gardener, who says that du 

 Perac was the first in France to show how a parterre might be laid 

 out in a single comprehensive design, instead of dividing it into a 

 number of unrelated squares each different, and to introduce parterres 

 de broderie, consisting in flowing floral patterns, like those of embroidery, 

 outlined with box-edging. 



FONTAINEBLEAU. Few details are known of the history of Henry's 

 buildings at Fontainebleau, which completely altered the aspect of the 

 palace on the north and east, and seem to have been spread over 

 the greater part of the reign. They fall into three groups the 

 enclosure of the Queen's Garden, the opening up of the Oval Court, 

 and the new forecourt (see plan, Fig. 61). 



Orangery Court. The Queen's Garden was surrounded by three 

 wings finished about 1600 the "Galerie des Chevreuils" on the west 

 (M on the plan), decorated with hunting scenes ; the aviary on the 

 north (N on the plan), later transformed into an orangery, which gave 

 its name to the court, each with a single storey and small ornamental 

 dormers ; and the " Galerie des Cerfs " on the east (o on the plan), 

 with a second gallery over it, " Galerie de Diane," in the attic. This 

 wing (Fig. 225) is the only one of the three now standing. It is not 

 improbable that du Perac designed the various buildings of this court, 

 which recall the new courts at St Germain by the use of brick and 

 plaster and of tall semi-dormers with broken and voluted pediments. 



Oval Court. Remy Collin, Architect for the Buildings of Fontaine- 

 bleu, appears to have designed the remainder of the works, whose 

 object was to make a new and more noble approach to the royal 

 apartments. For this purpose the eastern end of the Oval Court was 

 opened out, the two sides being slightly set back and refaced, and 

 a screen substituted for the oval guard-room, in the centre of which was 

 a stately gateway (Q on the plan) with a vaulted arch under a pediment 

 and square dome ; it was known as the " Porte Dauphine," and after 

 1606, at which date the heir to the throne was christened under it, as 



