THE STYLES OF HENRY IV. AND LOUIS XIII. 



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248. CHARENTON : "TEMPLE" OR PROTESTANT CHURCH, BY S. DE BROSSE 



(1623, DESTROYED l686). SECTION AND PLAN. FROM MAROT. 



(1685) if not earlier. At Quevilly, near Rouen, the "temple" was a 

 twelve-sided timber building with galleries. The " temple " at Charen- 

 ton, which served the Protestants of the capital, was in a sense the 

 cathedral of French Protestantism, and exercised considerable influence 

 on the design of Protestant churches on the Continent. It was designed 

 by the royal architect Salomon de Brosse in 1623, on the site of the 

 earlier one (Fig. 248). Since Protestantism claimed to be a return to 



