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cypher of the Jesuits in a flood of rays, and on the right and left are niches 
with the statues of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier. In the upper 
story, which has only four columns, stands, in a niche, the statue of St. 
Louis. In former times (and our copy is from Derrand’s drawing) the 
facade was overloaded with ornaments, which are now removed, and the 
effect, although not in the best style, is much improved. 
3. Tue Horer pes Invatmes in Paris. One of the most famous French 
architects next to Mansard was Liberal Bruant, who lived in the 17th and 
18th centuries (born in 1640). The Hotel des Invalides is among his best 
buildings. Of its church, pl. 47, fig. 1, gives the ground plan, fg. 2 the 
view, jig. 3 the section, fig. 4 the ground plan of the dome, and jigs. 5 and 
6 details of the arch soffits, whilst pl. 50, jig. 1, represents the interior. 
The facade of the entire building, which consists of five courts, is 615 feet 
long. In the rear of the middle and largest court which is surrounded by 
a gallery of double arcades, is the portal of the church, which now contains 
the ashes of Napoleon. The facade of the Invalide-house itself has arcades 
below and three stories above. In the middle a large arch crowns the 
portal. Upon the great court are 4 eating-halls, each 138 feet long, 33 feet 
wide, and 31 feet high. Louis XIII. founded the building in 1634 accord- 
ing to another plan, but the erection was interrupted, and Louis XIV. had 
it built from Bruant’s plan in 1670. The chureh designed by that architect 
is not to be confounded with the later addition, but embraced only the 
part a (pl. 47, fig. 1), with the two round vestries ¢ ¢. It consists of a 
fore hall and three aisles of which the middle one is 38 feet, the side ones 
only 9 feet, 6 inches wide. Upon these side aisles rests the gallery. Onut- 
side of the vestibule stand six pairs of Dorie and over them as many 
Corinthian columns, coupled. Between the vestries, ¢c, is the oval division d, 
with the richly decorated altar 6. The height of the aisles is 85 feet, and 
over the altar is yet a wooden dome 15 feet high. 
Thence you enter the cathedral proper e, whose Corinthian columns 
(4 feet thick and 36 feet high), with the pillars which are finished with 
Corinthian pilasters, support the drum of the dome which is 73 feet wide 
inside. The dome itself is of wood, and its highest point is 210 feet from 
the church floor. The dome begins 68 feet above the gable of the fagade. 
Its form is handsome, and its height to the breadth is as 5 to 3. It is 
gilded and upon it stands a lantern crowned with a cross, 275 feet above the 
floor, and surrounded with Corinthian columns. The cathedral was begun by 
Hardouin Mansard and finished by de Cotte. It oceupies an area of 30,132 
square feet, and with the old church the whole amounts to 43,896 square feet, 
and is to St. Peter’s as 1: 4.55. The cathedral is much like the chapel at 
Fresnes built by Cotte, of which pl. 46, jig. 18, gives the ground plan, and 
jig. 14asection. It consists of a fore church and a square that supports the 
dome, which is accompanied by three half domes over the niches. 
4. Tae Cuurcu or THE Sorsonne In Paris. Jacques Lemercier, who 
died poor in 1660 as first architect of the king (a fact of rare occurrence), 
bailt a great deal. His most important work was the church and college 
of the Sorbonne, finished under Richelieu in 1653 (pl. 47, jig. 9, ground 
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