THE STYLES OF HENRY IV. AND LOUIS XIII. 



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241. PARIS: HOTEL DE SULLY, RUE ST 

 ANTOINE. ELEVATION TO STREET. 

 FROM MAROT. 



Louvre (c. 1615-20), probably 

 by Clement Jacques Metezeau, 

 the openings had rusticated 

 coigns instead of architraves, 

 and they were separated by 

 coupled pilasters (Fig. 216). 

 At the sides an open arcade 

 occupied the lower storey ; at 

 the back a niche was intro- 

 duced between each pair of 

 pilasters. The dormers were 

 grouped so that one short one 

 came at either end of each 

 side, the intervening ones 



being tall. The order was carried across the front of the screen-wall 

 whose gateway was surmounted by a polygonal pediment with car- 

 touches and sculpture. 



HOTELS DE MAYENNE AND SULLY, PARIS. Two extant examples, 

 both in the Rue St Antoine the Hotel de Mayenne (or d'Ormesson), 

 by Jacques II. or Jean du Cerceau (c. 1600-10), and the better known 

 and better preserved Hotel de Sully, probably by the latter (c. 1630-40) 

 well illustrate the massive dignity and the lack of refinement in 

 ornament and detail which characterise this period. The former is an 

 example of profuse pilaster treatment, the latter of a chaine treatment 

 of great simplicity in its main lines, but supplemented by statue-niches 

 and much enrichment of the pediments and rather squat dormers (Figs. 

 241 and 242). Another and much more considerable work of Jean du 

 Cerceau was the H6tel de Bretonvillers at the eastern point of the lie 

 St Louis of which only one pavilion remains. 



HOTEL DE LIANCOURT, PARIS. Salomon de Brosse left his mark 

 on the design of the town mansion as in other domains. His Hotel 

 de Liancourt (previously de Bouillon, later de la Rochefoucauld), 

 Rue de Seine (1613), was one of the first where the main building 

 was planned to occupy the full width of several courts so as to have an 

 extended garden front, and where the court of honour was curved at one 

 end. The elevations of this were designed with a refinement of pro- 

 portion not very usual at the period. They had a low rusticated 

 ground storey with plain square openings forming a basement to the 

 piano nobile, with its order of single Doric pilasters and tall windows, 

 above which respectively stood finely designed dormers and vases. 



PALAIS CARDINAL. One of the most important Paris mansions of 

 the reign of Louis XIII. was the Palais Cardinal, built by Le Mercier 

 for Richelieu (1629-36) and bequeathed by him to the King, whose son, 

 Louis XIV., changed its name to Palais Royal. It consisted of two 



