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garden front by the projection formed by a 

 room of a form midway between a circle and 

 an ellipse (Figs. 358 and 359). 



SOME PARISIAN HOUSP:S. The H6tel de 

 Matignon (57 Rue de Crenelle, now Austrian 

 Embassy), by Courtonne (1721), has an ellip- 

 tical vestibule, whose curved projection forms 

 the centre of a five-roomed front towards the 

 court, while by a skilful arrangement of the 

 plan the garden front, which is also five rooms 

 wide, has a different axis in which lies the 

 projecting end of the octagonal drawing-room 

 (Fig. 362). De Cotte, in the Hdtel le Gendre 

 d'Armini (Fig. 360), (1713, now destroyed), 

 and Tannevot, in the Hotel des Vieux (15 

 Rue des Capucines, 1726), obtain additional 

 window space in narrow sites by cutting off 

 re-entering angles of the court with a cant. 



Boffrand's Hotel d'Amelot (i Rue St 

 Dominique), whose garden front is designed 



on the 



360. PARIS : HOTEL I.E 

 GENDRE D'ARMINI, 

 RUE DES CAPUCINES 

 (NOW DESTROYED), BY 

 R. DE COTTE (1713). 

 GROUND FLOOR PLAN. 

 P'ROM BLONDEL. 



361. PARIS: HOTEL D'AMELOT (LATER 

 DE MONTMORENCY), i RUE ST DOMI- 

 NIQUE, BY G. BOFKRAND. GROUND 



FLOOR PLAN. FROM BLONDEL. 

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usual lines, has an 

 elliptical court (Fig. 361). 

 This beautiful arrangement is 

 not obtained by any sacrifice 

 of convenience, for the plan 

 is contrived in such a manner 

 that the interior is commodi- 

 ous and well lit, and the 

 rooms have the appearance of 

 regularity ; for instance, the 

 staircase-well and ante- 

 chamber on either side of the 

 vestibule are quasi-pentagonal. 

 The front of the house towards 

 the court, which is five win- 

 dows wide, derives an unusual 

 monumentality from the use 

 of a giant order of Corinthian 

 pilasters whose bases are on 

 the ground floor level, a 

 treatment unusual in private 

 houses. 



The Hotel d'Evreux, now 

 Palais de 1'Elysee, and a 



