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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 





internally in a pseudo-Chinese style and had a convex pointed roof 

 with wavy eaves. A roof of similar form is the only Turkish element 

 unless it be a tile-lined bath in the " Kiosque," which was supposed 

 to be built a la Turque. Its internal decoration, in its attempt to be 

 Oriental, merely achieves a kind of hybrid between the Louis XV. and 

 Louis XIII. styles. The square pavilion of Chanteheux, closing the 

 vista of the gardens of Luneville, consisted of 

 three storeys of nine, seven, and three bays 

 respectively ; each had a flat balustraded roof, 

 and the buildings thus formed a pyramid of 

 three steps, whose walls were almost entirely 

 covered with rococo decoration ; whether this 

 was carved or painted does not appear. 



HERE'S WORK AT NANCY. In Chanteheux, 

 the Kiosque and other works, some of which 

 were quite puerile, Emmanuel Here de Corny 

 (1705-63), who succeeded Boffrand as architect 

 to Stanislas, was satisfying the lighter caprices 

 of a master whose taste was not always of the 

 best, but he showed capacity of a high order 

 in tackling the more serious tasks entrusted to 

 him, and it is to the works carried out by him 

 (1750-7) that Nancy owes its unique charm. 

 He followed closely in Boffrand's footsteps in 

 the design of the edifices with which he em- 

 bellished the city, while his masterly treatment 

 of the site of the derelict fortifications and 

 tourney-ground was also a development of 

 what Boffrand had begun (Fig. 375). He com- 

 pleted the sides of the Carriere with symmetri- 

 ca ^ rows f houses, and laid it out as a public 



garden bordered with balustrades and statues. 



, . ... 



^ * e nortn er) d> instead of the ambitious royal 



BOFFRAND AND palace with a closed court, he placed a smaller 

 HERB DE CORNY, one for the Governor with an open forecourt, 

 PLAN. FROM PATTE. formed by connecting it at each end with the 

 pavilions of the Carriere by a screen en hemi- 



cycle (Fig. 376). The quiet and dainty architecture of the Governor's 

 hotel with its three orders seems to have been suggested by the court 

 elevation of Boffrand's palace. A colonnade forms a portico the 

 full length of the front and is carried round the screens inside and 

 out. At the south end of the Carriere, a triumphal arch leads be- 

 tween two blocks of low buildings into the Place Royale, now Place 

 Stanislas, in the centre of which stood the statue of Louis XV. On 



375. NANCY : LAY-OUT 

 OF NEW TOWN BY 



