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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



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'364. PARIS: PALAIS BOURBON, BY GIARDINI (1722). ELEVATION TO COURT. 



FROM MARIETTE. 



harshness or severity clashed with the soft and luxurious effect of 

 this composition, and though incorrections in detail, mostly theoretical, 

 are open to criticism, its main lines are of a strictly architectural 

 character. 



VILLAS AND CHATEAUX. Other examples of the type are the 

 adjoining Hotel de Lassay, also by L'Assurance, with rustication 

 instead of orders, and a villa at St Ouen built by Boffrand for the 

 Prince de Rohan. The use of a flat balustraded roof for a house of 

 the chateau class with several storeys, such as one designed for 

 M. Crozat at Montmorency by Cartaud, seems to have been excep- 

 tional, but it occurs sometimes in smaller country or suburban houses 

 of a type brought into vogue by Marly, and ultimately traceable to 



Palladio's Villa Rotonda, viz., a 

 symmetrically planned house with 

 central top-lit hall carried up above 

 the other apartments. A design 

 f r a y ill a near Geneva, by Jean F. 

 Blondel, is a good example (Figs. 

 366, 367, and 368). The plan is 

 square. A small central elliptical 

 hall, carried up through basement 

 and ground floor, expands on the 

 first floor to a larger ellipse, with 

 a gallery round it giving access to 

 the bedrooms, and is covered by 

 an elongated octagonal lantern. 



The enclosed, or partly en- 

 closed, court of honour was by 

 now very rare, but survived, for 

 instance, in the chateau of 

 PALAIS BOURBON : PLAN. Bagnolet, attributed to des Gots. 



