The architecture of the Renaissance in France; a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)
owever, may have given her architect suggestions, andundoubtedly heli)ed by the meetings in her Salon Bleu to populariseinnovations called into being l)y the needs of a society which owedmuch to her influence. Towards the end of Henry IV.s reign shebegan to hold those receptions which have made her… … 216. Paris: Hotel de Longueville, or dP3ierno.\, Rue Sr ThomasDU Louvre (r. 1615). Now destroyed. From Marot. object. The former gained culture and the latter urbanity by mutualcontact. She devoted much care to making her house a suitable placefor these reunions, and the Hotel de Rambouillet as…