THE STYLE OF LOUIS XV. 



4OI 



columns (Figs. 384 



and 385). The 



church is lit partly 



by the chapel win- 



dows, partly by cir- 



cular lights above 



the chapel roof in 



the tympana of 



wall arches, corre- 



sponding to the 



nave arches, and 



by others in the 



drumless dome 



over the intersec- 



tion. The arrange- 



ment at St Jacques 



at Luneville, by 



Boffrand (begun 



1730), and St 



Sebastien at 



Nancy, by Jean 



Nicolas Jennesson 



(1720-31), are simi- 



lar, but in these 



cases the columns 



are single, and the 



vaults and arches spring direct from their capitals. 



VIGNOLAN FACADES. In Paris there was little occasion to build 

 new churches, but many of the unfinished seventeenth 

 century churches received new fagades between 1715 

 and 1/55. VVith one or two exceptions, such as the 

 Church of the Capuchin Nuns, opposite the north 



[HRiilffA.v*::"**! entrance to the Place Vendome (1722), by an un- 

 jji, ,'i I known architect, which followed the type introduced 

 * * by F. Mansart at Ste Marie, they are more or less 



skilful studies in the familiar two-storey basilica type. 

 Such are the fronts of Notre Dame des Victoires by 

 Cartaud, of St Roch (both 1739), designed by R. 

 de Cotte and carried out after his death either by 

 his son, Robert Jules, or by J. J. Gabriel; that of 



the Oratoire, also attributed to de Cotte and carried 

 BESANCON : t u /- '/ \ j u cc j> i t - r 



MADELEINE out b >" Cac l ue ( I 745) and Boffrand's completion of 

 CHURCH tne chapel of La Merci, whose lower order with 

 (1766): PLAN, elliptical shafts was by Cottart. The best of these is 



384- 



BESANCON : MADELEINE CHURCH. INTERIOR 

 LOOKING EAST. 



385. 



