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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



240. PARIS : HOTEL DE CONDE (c. 1600) ; Now DESTROYED. 

 ELEVATION TO COURT. FROM MAROT. 



guard-room is the only part which partakes of the heavier character 

 of the age. 



HOTEL DE CONDE, PARIS. Paris affords a more typical series. 

 There the court elevations, which are usually the most interesting, are 

 varied by ringing the changes on combinations of niches and panels, 

 chaines and orders with the tall square-headed windows and the two 

 types of dormers. Pavilions are but seldom used. In one of the 

 earliest of the century built for Jean Baptiste de Gondi, acquired by the 

 Conde family (c. 1610) and destroyed under Louis XVI. to make room 

 for the Odeon theatre, the court was closed towards the street by a 

 screen consisting of a full storey and an attic with arched semi-dormers, 

 and pierced in the centre by a polygonal rusticated carriage archway 

 under a broken pediment and cartouche. The sides of the court (Fig. 

 240) were set out in an effective manner without chaines or orders but 

 with architraves to the openings. The lower windows were set back 

 in a blind arcade whose piers were formed into niches acting as 

 pedestals for trophies ; in the upper storey the windows were divided 

 by brick panels behind the trophies. The dormers were tall and short 

 in alternate bays. 



HOTEL DE LONGUEVILLE, PARIS. In the Hotel de Longueville 

 (also known as de Chevreuse, and d'Epernon), Rue St Thomas du 



