THE STYLE OF LOUIS XIV. 



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Chapel. AtStRoch 

 an aisle runs round 

 this Lady Chapel, 

 and opens into a 

 small circular chapel 

 with a coved ceiling 

 beyond it, and the 

 transept - ends are 

 treated internally as 

 shallow apses with 

 flat semi-domes. In 

 both cases the vaults 

 spring from pedestals 

 above the order. 

 St Sulpice being on 

 a rather larger scale, 

 loftier in proportion, 

 and with more im- 

 portant transepts, 

 its interior gives a 

 sense of stately 

 spaciousness rather 

 lacking at St Roch. 



St Louis-en-1'Ile, begun by Le Vau (1664) and finished by 

 J. Doucet (1726), differs from the preceding in little but the arrange- 

 ment of the east end, which is square with an aisle carried across 

 the back of the choir. St Thomas d'Aquin, designed by Pierre 

 Bullet as the chapel of the Reformed Dominicans (begun 1682), is 

 a scholarly version of the conventual variety with chapels, but no 

 aisles. 



VIGNOLAN FACADES. In all the churches mentioned there is either 

 no fagade or one added at a later date. St Elizabeth (c. 1670) offers an 

 example of the usual basilican front, and Notre Dame de la Gloriette 

 at Caen another. The latter church, which was designed by Pierre 

 Bullet, is a particularly elegant and complete representative of its 

 class, and remarkable for its fittings. 



The churches of Notre Dame (c. 1685) and of the Jacobins (1707) 

 at Bordeaux both have basilica facades treated in a florid but effective 

 manner, and with the central portion projected in front of the wings. 

 At Notre Dame, Versailles, J. H. Mansart gave yet another version 

 of the prevailing type. The detail is very pure, and the interior severe 

 and devotional in effect, though of rather squat proportions, but the 

 fagade is peculiarly unsatisfactory, giving the impression of a two- 

 storeyed temple with a lantern on the apex of the pediment. A 



PARIS : ST SULPICE. INTERIOR LOOKING 

 EAST. 



