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EXAMPLES OF 

 TOWN HOUSES. 

 Town houses great 

 and small of a similar 

 character are to be 

 found in most old 

 towns : e.g., a house 

 in Rue Grosse Hor- 

 loge, Rouen (1601) ; 

 the Hotel Mont- 

 escot, Chartres ; the 

 Pavilion des Arque- 

 busiers, Soissons; 

 the Bishop's Palace 

 (now Tribunal) at 

 Lisieux, a remark- 

 ably fine example ; 

 the Abbot's Lodg- 

 ing (now Hotel de 

 Ville) at St Amand, 

 strongly influenced 

 by Flemish barocco 

 (1630); the Hotel 

 Caulet (1634) and 

 the court of the 

 Maison de Pierre, 

 Toulouse. 



HOTEL DE 

 VOGUE, DIJON. 

 An evolution paral- 

 lel to that traced in 

 the great chateaux 

 can be observed in 

 the great hotels. One of the most interesting town mansions of the 

 early seventeenth century is the Hotel de Vogue at Dijon (1607-14), 

 which, by its refinement, delicate fancy, and variety of treatment, 

 recalls the best days of the earlier Renaissance. The elevations 

 are undivided by orders, panels, or chain's, but depend entirely for 

 effect on the happy placing of the openings each beautifully de- 

 signed and tastefully decorated with sculpture (Fig. 239). Rustica- 

 tion indeed enriches the entrance (Fig. 237), but it is rather in the 

 manner of the Hotel d'Assezat at Toulouse than in that of Fontaine- 

 bleau or the Luxembourg, and an order is used only for the internal 

 face of the screen-loggia (Fig. 238), while the decoration of the 



239. DIJON : HOTEL DE VOGUE. DORMER. 



