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334. SECOND CHURCH OF THE INVALIDES, BY J. II. MANSART. 



arches, and necessitate awkwardly shaped pendentives (Fig. 336). The 

 detached order of columns carrying nothing, which is placed in front 

 of the piers, perhaps to disguise their excess of solidity, is so obviously 

 useless, that it merely introduces an element of confusion. To these 



