THE STYLE OF THE EMPIRE. 



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and indeed beyond it many 

 hotels and country houses are to 

 be found conforming, with but 

 slight variations, to the type in- 

 troduced in the last years before 

 the Revolution, of which the 

 Hotels de Brunoy and de Salm 

 were examples. Till the end of 

 the Empire they form the great 

 majority ; neo-classical detail and 

 symmetrical compact planning 

 are still the rule. The Hotel Ste 

 Foix, Rue Basse du Rempart, by 

 Brongniart (1798); a house by 

 Damesne, Rue Richer (1793) 

 (Fig. 463); the Chateau of Ste 

 Assise, near Melun, as restored 

 by Sobre, will serve as specimens 

 of detached town and country 

 houses respectively. The eleva- 

 tions of the Rue de Rivoli illus- 

 trate the Empire style as applied 

 to terrace houses (Fig. 461). 

 Combined schemes of this de- 

 scription, frequent at that time, 

 contributed largely by their uni- 

 formity and avoidance of eccen- 

 tricity to the establishment of a 

 type of street architecture of an 

 unusually high average of excel- 

 lence, which till quite recent 

 times has seldom been departed 

 from, and gives Paris a physio- 

 gnomy all her own. Shop fronts 

 were developed to the greatest 

 possible size consistent with the 

 retention of piers of sufficient ap- 

 parent, as well as actual, strength 

 (Fig. 462). A new idea was the 

 introduction of galeries, or as 

 they would be called in London, 

 "arcades," i.e., streets of shops 

 accessible to foot - passengers 

 only, and covered by a glass 

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462. PARIS : TERRACE HOUSE WITH 

 SHOP IN RUE GRENELLE, ST 

 HONORE. FROM KRAFFT 

 AND THIOLLET. 



