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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 





Almost the only rival model to the Church of the Gesii was St Peter's, 

 but while St Peter's supplied the idea of the dome and little else, the 

 greater influence of the Gesii is manifest by the universality of its 

 system of superposed small orders, its facade and other elevations, 

 its section and its plan. The term, "Jesuit style," is often used as 

 equivalent to the most extravagant type of barocco. This is misleading, 



