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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



238. DIJON: HOTEL DE VOGUE. LOGGIA IN COURT. 



of diapering, orders, cartouches, or floral motives. The general similarity 

 of style throughout, as well as the difference between the plainer and 

 generally earlier, and the more florid and generally later types may be 

 judged by comparing, for instance, the houses of the Place Royale, 

 or the Place Dauphine in Paris (Fig. 210 and 211), or the chateaux of 

 Courances and Rougemont (Fig. 208), with those of Les Ifs (Fig. 212) 

 and Beaumesnil (Figs. 220 and 221). 



EXAMPLES OF CHATEAUX. The style is illustrated in various ways 

 by the chateau of St Loup-sur-Thouet (c. 1615) and the original one 

 of Versailles (1624), probably by de Brosse (Fig. 299); the chateaux 

 of Wideville and Vizille (c. 1620); Balleroy (1626-36) and Daubeuf 

 (1629), early works of Mansart ; Cheverny; Cany Barville (1640-6); 

 Bussy Rabutin the main block (1649). Miromesnil (?^. 1650) has 

 a charming treatment of brick walling with a giant order of stone 

 pilasters carrying vases. At Oyron (Figs. 218 and 219) the low central 

 block appears to be of about 1630-40, but the two lofty angle pavilions 

 betray the age of Louis XIV. by their flat, balustraded roofs, trophy- 

 crowned angles, and more refined detail, and though they were probably 

 not built till about 1690, they show an interesting adaptation of Louis 

 XIII. wall treatment curiously irregular in its spacing; even Menars, 

 rebuilt by Madame de Pompadour and her brother (1760-5), shows 

 little divergence from the type. 



