House and Garden 
THE LOUVRE FACADE AS BUILT BY LESCOT 
From Du Cerceau 
retained on the western side. The Pavilion 
du Roi in the south-western corner was added 
in the reign of Henry II., and in the time 
of the last Valois the southern corps de bati- 
ment was finished according to the design of 
Pierre Lescot. 
Instead of completing the scheme of 
this architect at the Louvre, the attention 
of the royal family was diverted to the 
project of Catharine de Medici for a new 
palace on the other side of the enceinte of 
Charles V. The architect chosen by the 
queen was Philibert Delorme, who com¬ 
menced work in 1564, in the reign of 
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