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a good Ionic order. 

 Another example of the 

 type, smaller and simpler 

 in plan, but with an 

 interior dome, is the 

 chapel at Moulins (now 

 chapel of the Lycee), 

 designed by J. Marot to 

 contain the mausoleum 

 of Henry II. of Mont- 

 morency. It consists of 

 two bays with chapels 

 and single bay transepts 

 and choir. The circular 

 dome over the inter- 

 section is lit by large 

 semicircular windows 

 between the pendent- 

 ives, and owing to the 

 shortness of all the arms 

 assumes an unusual im- 

 portance in the interior. 

 Very similar to this in 

 arrangement was the 

 church designed by 

 Antoine Le Pautre for 

 the community of Port 

 Royal. 



S T S U L P I C E, S T 



ROCH, &c. Two of the 

 great parish churches of 

 Paris date their incep- 

 tion from Louis XIV.'s 

 minority that of St 

 Roch in the Faubourg 

 St Honore by Le Mer- 

 cier (begun 1653), and 

 that of St Sulpice (Figs. 

 320 and 321) in the 

 Faubourg St Germain by 

 Le Van (begun 1655). They are almost identical in plan and section, 

 both being fully developed examples of the accepted type, with concealed 

 domes (timber at St Roch and stone at St Sulpice) and aisles and chapels 

 both carried round the apse. Each has in addition an elliptical Lady 



320. 



PARIS : ST SULPICE, BY LE VAU (BEGUN 

 1655). PLAN. FROM BLONDEL. 



