THE STYLE OF LOUIS XIV. 



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de Monceaux (Fig. 269) combined convenience and spaciousness with 

 symmetry in an unusual degree. In the main block, which is two 

 rooms deep, it is connected by open loggias on each side with the 

 street block, which is devoted entirely to stable and service accom- 

 modation. 



HOTELS BY A. LE PAUTRE, J. BRUAND, AND COTTART. In the 

 work of the three architects which now remain to be mentioned the 

 decorative tendency is strongly developed. They are Antoine Le Pautre 

 or Le Paultre (1621-91), whose brother Jean is celebrated as an engraver 

 and decorative designer, and who himself published a book of archi- 

 tectural designs (Paris, 1652); Jacques Bruand (died 1664, brother of 

 the better known Liberal Bruand), and Pierre Cottart (died after 1686). 

 The most original of Le Pautre's executed works is the Hotel de 

 Beauvais (1656) (Rue F. Miron), of which the greater part is intact, 

 though the facade 

 in which sculpture 

 played an import- 

 ant part is now un- 

 recognisable. Its 

 very irregular site 

 has given rise to a 

 plan of peculiar in- 

 genuity and beauty 

 (Fig. 270). Since 

 it abuts on two 

 streets and there is 

 no garden, the 

 principal block is 

 placed on the more 

 important street 

 and includes shops 

 in its lower storey. 

 The main coach 

 entrance passes 

 between these 

 and reaches the 

 court through a 

 circular colon- 

 naded porch or 

 open vestibule, 

 communicating, on 

 the right, with the 

 kitchen offices, 

 and, on the left, 



271. BUREAU DES MARCHANDS DRAPIERS, BY J. 

 BRUAND (1655): REBUILT IN SECOND COURT 

 OF HOTEL CARNAVALET. 



