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)
, Rue Basse du Rempart. Often,however, common-sense prevailed, and the porticoes and colonnadeswere so contrived as to allow the internal arrangements of the houseto tell their own tale. One of the best examples of the type of housefashionable in the last years before the Revolution is the Hotel de… … 414. Paris: Hotel Thelusson (now destroyed), by Ledoux (1780). From Krafft. 434 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. years previously. A comparison of these two aristocratic riversidedwellings, each a compendium of contemporary architectural anddecorative art, is instructive, as showing the…
