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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



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378. BORDEAUX: BOURSE, BY J. J. GABRIEL (c. 1740). 



Place de Bourgogne and its triumphal arch further up stream, over 

 three hundred houses of uniform design being built along the quay 

 (1743-6), thus constituting one of the most stately water frontages 

 possessed by any seaport town. Gabriel also laid out the public gardens 

 and decorated them with appropriate screens and pavilions, of which 



