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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



reredos of St Nicolas-des-Champs is almost the only remaining example 

 in Paris of the more elaborate reredoses, many of which were put up in 

 the early part of the reign, in which sculptors and painters collaborated 

 with the architect. Simon Vouet contributed two pictures, and Jacques 

 Sarrazin four statues to this example (cf. Fig. 340). Examples of reredoses 

 in the pronounced barocco manner may be seen at St Maximin, and in 

 the chapel of the Grey Penitents at Aigues Mortes. In the more im- 

 portant churches the high altar stood free, under a baldacchino more or 

 less closely modelled on that of St Peter's in Rome, as at the Val-de- 

 Grace and Invalides. 



Specimens of Louis XIV 7 . pulpits are to be found in innumerable 

 churches, among which may be mentioned Versailles (Notre Dame), 



Rouen (St Vincent). 

 Panelled and decorated 

 sacristies such as those 

 of St Vincent at Rouen 

 and the Lycee at Poitiers 

 are well worthy of remark. 

 Many of the Breton 

 churches, as for instance 

 those of St Thegonnec 

 and Guimiliau, are pecu- 

 liarly rich in wood fittings 

 of this period, profusely, 

 if coarsely, carved and 

 painted. The font- 

 canopy at Lampaul (Fig. 

 341) is an interesting 

 specimen of this rustic 

 work. The substitution 

 of metal work for stone 

 or marble, which was 

 taking place in castle 

 screens and balustrades 

 occurred also in church 

 screens cf. those of the 

 Val -de - Grace and St 

 Riquier. 



In many cases drastic 

 schemes of internal decor- 

 ation involving structural 

 alterations were carried 

 out in medieval churches 

 341. LAMPAUL : FONT AND CANOPY. with a view to obliterate 



