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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



seats designed by 

 Mique in the form 

 of cushioned Turk- 

 ish divans, or his 

 Jen de Bague, a sort 

 of merry - go - round 

 in the Chinese style 

 on which the ladies 

 sat to tilt at rings 

 hanging from posts. 

 But the best of 

 Mique's work in the 

 gardens survives in 

 the charming Bel- 

 vedere, a small 

 octagonal pavilion 

 in a pure Louis XVI. 

 style. 



The park of Tri- 

 anon is typical of 

 most of those laid 

 out at the time in- 

 volving the destruc- 

 tion of many a fine 

 work of the school 

 of Le Notre, though 

 the devastation did 

 not reach the same 

 proportions as in 

 England. The 

 Prince of Conde, 

 for instance, built a 

 village at Chantilly, 

 and the Duke of 

 Orleans transformed 

 his park of Mon- 

 ceau in a similar manner. Sometimes extravagances even greater 

 than at Trianon were indulged in. For instance, a seeming barn with 

 dilapidated thatch and broken leaded panes would contain a magnificent 

 saloon with marble columns, mirrors, gilding, and rich upholstery. 



BAGATELLE. Part, too, of the park of Bagatelle in the Bois de 

 Boulogne was laid out for the Comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI., 

 in the same style as that of the Petit Trianon, which the house itself 

 also resembles. It is a small, almost square, building of two storeys, 



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PARIS : GALLERIES OF PALAIS ROYAL, BY 

 V. Louis (1781-6). ELEVATION. 



