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with an unpierced attic, decorated with relief panels. The circular 

 drawing-room projects half its diameter, and is covered with a dome. 

 There are no orders, but the angles are emphasised by pilaster strips of 

 shallow rustication carrying pairs of consoles. It was built in sixty-four 

 days, in fulfilment of a wager made by the Comte d'Artois with the 

 Queen, a feat only rendered possible by the commandeering of all 

 building materials entering Paris at the time. The architect was 

 Fran9ois Joseph Belanger (1754-1818), whose facile talent scarcely 

 justified his extreme popularity in fashionable circles before and after 

 the Revolution. Somewhat similar to Bagatelle was the pavilion of 

 Louveciennes (or Luciennes) built by Ledoux for Madame du 

 Barry. 



CHATEAUX. Side by side with examples of chateau design, which 

 are in every way characteristic of the new style, such as the noble 

 Chateau du Marais, are others, which, while detailed and decorated 

 in the Louis XVI. manner, hark back to older types of plan and eleva- 

 tion. Thus Belbceuf (1765) seems to borrow its polygonal projections 

 from the age of the Regency; Moncley (1770) its square-hipped angle 

 pavilions from Ancy-le-Franc, and its central domed pavilion from 

 Vaux-le-Vicomte ; and Menars (c. 1765) its scheme of stone rustication 

 and brick walling from the age of Louis XIII. Other contemporary 

 examples are Pinsaguel (1745); Fontaine-FranQaise (1755); Plassac, 

 attributed to Victor Louis (1777); Talance (near Bordeaux). 



HOTELS. If the chateaux of this period offer no example of special 

 pre-eminence for its dimensions or architectural treatment, there are a 



408. DESIGN FOR HOTEL BY J. F. DE NEUFFORGE. 



