THE STYLE OF LOUIS XVI. 



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410. PARIS : HOTEL BRUNOY, BY E. L. 

 BOULLEE. ELEVATION TO GARDEN. 



(Fig. 407). The closely 



spaced composite pilasters 



are so huge as to dwarf 



the small openings between 



them ; and the bays are so 



narrow as not even to give 



room for an archivolt to 



the ground floor arcade ; 



while the frieze, though of 



exaggerated depth, has to 



be yet further deepened 



to provide room for the 



second floor windows by 



dropping the top member 



of the architrave where they occur. The detail and ornament, however, 



is beautifully designed, and infinitely varied, and in spite of the defects 



mentioned the court has a grand air. 



EXAMPLES OF TOWN HOUSES. Some examples of the average 



Louis XVI. domestic archi- 

 tecture deserve mention. The 

 following are hdtels with fore- 

 courts or standing in their 

 own grounds : at Paris, 1 1 o 

 and 127 Rue de Crenelle 

 (now Government offices), 

 both by Cherpitel (c. 1775), 

 Hotel de Fleury (now Ecole 

 des Fonts et Chassees) by 

 Antoine, the Italian Embassy, 

 72 and 73 Rue de Varennes, 

 15 and 24 Rue de 1'Universite, 

 Hotel Roges in the Champs 

 Elysees. At Bordeaux, the 

 Hotel Labottiere (1770-3) by 

 Laclotte, 9 Cours d'Albret by 

 Lhote (1778) ; the hotels now 

 used as Prefectures at Dijon, 

 by Lenoir(i759),and at Besan- 

 gon, by Louis; the former Arch- 

 bishop's Palaces at Bordeaux 



(1771-81) by Etienne and La 

 HOTEL DK SALM (NOW CHANCEL- d (now H6td de ville) 



LERIE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR), , , , 



BY P. ROUSSEAU (1782-6). PLAN, and at Tours (1755), and that 

 FROM KRAFFT. at Cambrai by J. F. Blondel. 



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