THE STYLE OF LOUIS XIV. 



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323. DESIGN FOR COMPLETION OF CHURCH OF THE MINIMS (NEAR PLACE 

 DES VOSGES), PARIS, BY F. MANSART (NEVER FULLY EXECUTED AND 

 NOW DESTROYED). From an Old Print. 



entrance to the Place Royale (now destroyed), remodelled by Frangois 

 Mansart, was to have had a dome octagonal in plan rising on a drum 

 well above the roofs (Fig. 323). His scheme, which was never finished, 

 comprised a variant on the basilica-fagade, followed later in the second 

 church of the Invalides, and in that of the College des Quatre Nations : 

 the side compartments being of equal height with the central. Low 

 wings also projected on each side ending in domed pavilions, the space 

 between which formed a forecourt to the church. Other examples of 

 fagades differing even more from the stereotyped type are occasionally 

 found. For instance, the desecrated church of St Louis at Rouen has a 

 charming front in which a giant order of four Ionic pilasters, with capitals 

 linked together by garlands, carries a curved pediment filled with good 

 sculpture and surmounted by reclining figures. The wide central bay 

 contains a wreathed circular window over the door, and the side bays 

 plain spaces over niches. Again the church of Notre Dame at Pontoise 

 has a west portal, designed on the lines of a Roman triumphal arch. Of 

 the double tower fronts an important instance is the cathedral of Auch, 

 where the west end was built in 1662 with Louis XIV. detail, but 

 otherwise in accordance with a design laid down a century earlier. 



INTERMEDIATE TYPES OF PLAN: THE SORBONNE. The churches of 

 the Sorbonne and Val-de-Grace in Paris illustrate attempts to introduce a 

 dome wider than the nave into churches of approximately basilican plan. 



