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from the ground (1758-80), and was reflected in the work not only 

 of the younger men but eventually even of the older generation. An 

 impulse was also given to the application of the archaeological 

 method to domestic architecture by Etienne Louis Boullee (1728-99), 

 who had an extensive private practice, and whose Hotel de Brunoy 

 in the Faubourg St Honore (1772) (Fig. 410) created a great impression 

 by its departure from tradition. His contemporary, Jacques Denis 

 Antoine (1733 1801), whose early work was almost indistinguishable 

 from Gabriel's, ended by pushing the archasological tendency to an 

 extreme, which even Soufflot would scarcely have approved. His 

 introduction of a Greek order in a gateway at the Charite Hospital 

 (1790) marks the end of the Louis XVI. and the triumph of the 



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394. WROUGHT-IRON SCREEN IN AMIENS CATHEDRAL. 



Measured and Drawn by P. Hepworth. 



