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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



244. FONTAINEBLEATI : INTERIOR OF TRINITY CHAPEL. 

 SOUTH END (DECORATED 1608-15). 



de Justice), of 

 Rennes (1617-25), 

 a building which 

 in an austere 

 classical spirit tells 

 its own tale with 

 directness. The 

 Grande Salle, with 

 timber barrel ceil- 

 ing, which occupies 

 the whole upper 

 storey between the 

 end projections, 

 determines the 

 design by its range 

 of lofty arched 

 windows and its 

 expanse of slated 

 roof. The Grande 

 Salle of the Palais 

 de Justice in Paris 

 was also rebuilt by 

 him after a fire 

 (i 618-23) i n hi s 

 severe Roman 

 manner with two 

 long barrel vaults 

 in stone, carried 



by an arcade springing from eight square pilastered piers. 



The court of the Capitole at Toulouse, built under Henry IV., 

 shows alternate bands of brick and stone running through the pilasters. 

 The old Hotel de Ville of Rouen, Rue de la Grosse Horloge, designed 

 by Jacques I. Gabriel (1605), but never finished, is a massive structure, 

 not devoid of dignity, almost covered with bands of rustication. The 

 Hotel de Ville of Verdun (1623-30) is typical of the soberer work of 

 the period, while that of Troyes by Louis Victor Louis (begun 1624) 

 and in a much greater degree that of Rheims (begun 1627) and the 

 Bourse of Lille (1652) show the florid influence of Flemish barocco. 

 This series of municipal buildings closes worthily with the Hotel de 

 Ville of Lyons (1646-54), the largest of its kind yet seen in France, 

 designed by the city architect Simon Maupin, and restored after a fire 

 by J. H. Mansart (1674). It stands free on all sides and open arcades 

 afford a vista from back to front through its two courts. 



DECORATION. The old line of Italian decorators had come to an end 



