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)
s to make a new and more noble approach to the royalapartments. For this purpose the eastern end of the Oval Court wasopened out, the two sides being slightly set back and refaced, anda screen substituted for the oval guard-room, in the centre of which wasa stately gateway (q on the plan) with a…