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)
the ten-dencies of contemporary French work. Duke Leopold (1679-1729), first called in J. H. Mansart (about1700), who designed his chateau of Luneville (now barracks) and thecathedral of Nancy. Mansart was succeeded by Boffrand, whocompleted these works and made a design for a new palace to… … 373. (Geneva : Hotel de Saussure. TIIK STYLE OF LOUIS XV. 3«9 whicli, ill ihc fuilhcr end, lie built a pair of h6tels of similar designto the palace front, but on a smaller scale (a and n on plan. Fig. .)75)- HoKFRANi) AND Hkrk. The ducal palace was barely begun when financial and political…
