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work which covers a large hall, resting in part on caryatides executed by 
Jean Goujon. Lemercier (born 1629) continued the wing towards the Seine, 
to the facade of which Claude Perrault afterwards added the remarkably 
beautiful colonnade represented in elevation and ground plan in pl. 52, fig. 1. 
The three older facades towards the court were then made to harmonize 
withit. After Perrault’s death Gabriel continued the building of the upper 
part of the three older facades according to his own idea. When'Louis XIV. 
wished to finish the Louvre there was a disagreement about the form of the 
outer facades. At the suggestion of Colbert, Bernini was summoned from 
Rome to Paris, but his plans were not approved of. It was then that 
Perrault designed his colonnade, which was completed in 1670. It consists 
of coupled fluted Corinthian columns 3 feet 9 inches thick and 38 feet high, 
placed upon pedestals over the lower story, and supporting an excellently 
profiled entablature, whose height is 24 columnar diameters. The column- 
couples are placed at distances of 3 diameters; the two middle ones 6 
diameters’ distance from‘each other. ‘The four couples, or eight columns, in 
the centre support a triangular gable, whose crown cornice consists of two 
stones 54 feet long and 28 inches high. The facade towards the Rue le 
Coq has much beauty, especially an imposing carriage portal. In 1755 the 
exterior of the Louvre was completed. After the palace had been left to 
itself almost forty years Percier and Fontaine were ordered by Napoleon 
to improve it and arrange the interior tastefully. They opened the niches 
between the columns of the colonnade and changed them into windows. 
The two divisions of the colonnade were united over the middle door with 
a horizontal ceiling, so that now the communication appears no longer to be 
interrupted by the great arch. In spite of the triangular pediments over 
the windows of the main story, this facade is justly regarded as one of the 
finest of modern times, owing to the correctness of its proportions. 
2. Tue Patace oF THE TuILERIES IN PaRis was commenced in 1364 by 
command of Catharine di Medici, by Philibert Delorme and Jean Bullart, 
but was again abandoned until Henry IV. caused it to be continued on an 
altered plan by Ducerceau and Dupérai. It was finally completed under 
Louis XIV. by Louis le Beau and Frangois d’Orbois. Pl. 53, fig. 1, gives 
a view of the Tuileries from the Place du Carrousel. The employment of 
so many architects has had the effect of producing a singular arrangement : 
there are roofs of five different shapes, and the whole building is without 
any essential esthetic unity of design. The windows, which are six feet 
wide, have throughout piers of no greater breadth. Those of the first and 
second stories are 18 feet high; of the third, 16 feet. The entablature of 
the pilasters is intersected by the windows of the second story, and in the 
upper there are small pilasters standing over those beneath. The roof is 
disproportionately high, higher than half of the building. Altogether there 
are five pavilions, among which, besides the clock pavilion in the centre, 
the northern is interesting as the residence of Napoleon, of the Duchess 
of Berry, and finally of the Duke of Orleans; and the southern as the 
residence of Pope Pius VII. in 1804, of Charles X., and finally of Louis 
Philippe. 
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