THE STYLE OF LOUIS XV. 



which, at the further end, he built a pair of hdtels of similar design 

 to the palace front, but on a smaller scale (A and B on plan, Fig. 



375)- 



BOFFRAND AND HERE. The ducal palace was barely begun 

 when financial and political circumstances caused its abandonment. 

 A country house near Nancy, " la Malgrange," designed for Leopold 

 by Boffrand, was for the same cause never completed. One of the 

 designs for it is interesting as illustrating Boffrand's taste for curious 

 planning (Fig. 374). It consists of a large circular domed saloon in 

 the centre, surrounded by two tiers of galleries divided from the 

 central space by twenty-four coupled columns. From this radiate 

 four diagonal ranges of rooms en enfilade, forming two V's, between 

 whose legs and in the main axis, were at one end the vestibule, and 

 at the other a staircase and gallery. This building was evidently 



374. DESIGN FOR "LA MALGRANGE," NEAR NANCY, BY G. BOFFRAND: PLAN. 



designed as the centre of a radiating garden scheme, and in this 

 respect resembles Boffrand's design for a hunting lodge which was 

 begun, but never finished, for the Archduke Maximilian Emmanuel 

 at Bouchefort, or Boisfort, near Brussels. This was octagonal with 

 a central circular saloon and tetrastyle porticoes on alternate sides. 

 It stood at the centre of a circular open space on which seven avenues 

 converged, the auxiliary buildings being placed in the angles between 

 them. Both these designs were exceeded in eccentricity by the 

 smaller buildings carried out for Stanislas in the gardens of Luneville, 

 Boffrand's pavilion, known as the "Trefle," with hardly a single 

 straight line in its trefoil plan, is not only an extreme instance of 

 rococo planning, but, like the so-called " Kiosque " by his successor, 

 illustrates the fashion for Oriental art. The "Trefle" is decorated 



