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of the domed towers. But his interior is better lighted and less 

 ponderous. The central portion of the fa9ade, which, by being set 

 forward a little, detaches itself better from the towers, is very similar 

 in its design to that of St Roch ; but with columns of bolder pro- 

 jection and closer grouping it obtains a stronger vertical emphasis, 

 and is one of the most pleasing, as it is among the latest of its class. 



The church of St Martin at Langres has a fagade of this type of 

 great simplicity, but with a tower on one side only. This is a good 

 three-storeyed structure with buttress-like diagonal angle piers, carrying 

 vases and a graceful open lantern. 



The fagade of the aisleless church of Notre Dame de Bonsecours 

 at Nancy, an early work by Here (1728), built to contain the tombs 

 of Duke Stanislas and his wife, has an order of four engaged columns 



carrying an attic, 

 from the centre of 

 which rises a tower 

 of three storeys, the 

 lower flanked by 

 volutes, the upper 

 treated with an 

 order and capped 

 by a bulbous coni- 

 cal roof. 



A rococo ver- 

 sion of the twin- 

 tower facade with 

 towers in the line 

 of the aisles is that 

 of Here's St Jacques 

 at Luneville (1745). 

 The lower part is 

 rather severe : the 

 nave front has a 

 giant order and 

 pediment, and the 

 towers are square ; 

 but above they be 

 come unusually 

 florid, the central 

 storey being circu- 

 lar with engaged 

 angle columns, and 



VERSAILLES : PALACE CHAPEL. ORGAN CASE tne upper one 

 DESIGNED BY R. DE CoTTE (1710). carries a highly 



