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)
ecorated internally with black marble columns and sarcophagi, andsurmounted by a coffered octagonal dome. Again, though domesoften occurred over the intersection in churches of the Gesii type,they were a mere adjunct. The church of the Sorbonne, which isessentially a development of this type, was… … the plan is an early work of Francois Mansart,built by him for the nuns of the Visitation of StMary (1632-4) in the Rue St Antoine, and knownas St Mary of the Angels, now a Protestant church(Fig. 258). The plan ingeniously covers an irregu-lar site, the design consisting in principle of acircular…
