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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



roof, e.g., the Galeries Colbert and Vivienne, built on the site of the 

 Hotel Colbert. 



As the century advanced it was marked by a restless search for 

 novelty ; and, especially after the Restoration, picturesqueness invaded 

 the house, as well as the garden. Side by side with the neo-classic 

 type, houses are met with reproducing each stage of the Italian 

 Renaissance, thatched villas of timber and brick, and farmhouses in the 

 Flemish manner, with crow-stepped gables, while the revived interest 



in old French life is 

 manifested by the re- 

 building in Paris 

 (Cours la Reine) of 

 Francis I.'s house at 

 Moret (Fig. 57). 



SEPULCHRAL AR- 

 CHITECTURE. One of 

 the minor results of 

 the Revolution was the 

 disuse of burial in 

 churches, and conse- 

 quently of the internal 

 monumental tomb, 

 which was now replaced 

 by the open-air monu- 

 ment or sepulchral 

 chapel, erected in 

 cemeteries, for families 

 or in honour of persons 

 of distinction. The 

 most notable of this 

 new class of structure 

 is the Expiatory Chapel 



20 

 'FEET 



10 

 'METRES 



PARIS : DESIGN FOR HOUSE IN RUE RICHER. 

 FROM KRAFFT AND THIOLLET. 



to the memory of 

 Louis XVI. and Marie 

 Antoinette, built 



(1816-26), from the designs of Fontaine, on the spot at which they 

 had been buried, in the Rue d'Anjou. It is approached through a 

 court surrounded by low buildings, those on either hand forming 

 cloisters. Opposite the entrance is the square chapel, with a tetrastyle 

 portico and a vestibule in front, and a semicircular apse on each of the 

 remaining sides. The chapel has a circular stone dome, coffered within 

 and imbricated externally, with a central oculus the apses have similar 

 semi-domes. The whole is carried out in the refined classical manner 

 characteristic of the architect, but with a certain Byzantine flavour. On 



