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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



OTHER CHURCHES. 

 The more or less com- 

 plete concealment of 

 windows, the absence of 

 projections, a pedimented 

 portico on the main 

 facade the full height and 

 width of the building, or 

 at least of the nave, and 

 the consequent single 

 storey treatment, the 

 colonnade replacing, the 

 arcade ; such are the 

 usual characteristics of 

 churches of this period, 

 in addition to those com- 

 mon to the whole style. 

 They are all present in 

 St Philippe-du-Roulebuilt 

 from the designs of Chal- 

 grin (1769-84), and ex- 

 hibiting a variant on the 

 primitive basilica plan, 

 which now began to 

 supersede the cruciform 

 and Vignolan basilican 

 plans. The barrel vault 



of the nave is executed in timber according to de POrme's system. 

 Somewhat similar but without aisles is the Carmelite chapel at St Denis, 

 now Justice de Paix, by Mique (1767). The facades of the Beaujon 

 Chapel (1780) by Girardin, and the chapel of the Charite Hospital 

 (1786) by Antoine are even more severe, and have no porticoes. The 

 chapel of the Ecole Militaire by J. A. Gabriel has a masculine and 

 effectively treated interior with a depressed stone barrel vault, pierced 

 with ceils de-bceuf. 



St Louis d'Antin (formerly the chapel of a Capuchin monastery) 

 by Brongniart, St Pierre at Besangon, St Eloi at Dunkirk, both by 

 Louis, St Vaast at Arras (1755) by Contant dTvry, and a chapel (now 

 Protestant) in the Rue Hoche at Versailles by de Wailly, are examples 

 of the church building of this period, of which the design by Neufforge 

 reproduced in Fig. 442 is typical. 



The style of Louis XVI. constitutes one of the most homogeneous 

 and least strained adaptations of classical architecture to modern 



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442. 



DESIGN FOR CHURCH FRONT BY 

 J. F. DE NEUFFORGE. 



