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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)

Ward, William Henry, 1856-1924 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 194

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417. liOKDKAUX : ClIIMNEY-lIECE AT 9 RUE JeAN JACQUES BEL. which, though it suggests the front of a temple rather than that of adweUing-house with several floors, forms the main entrance to the man-sion. This pretentious feature and the blank unpierced walls producea frigid air which no purity of… … 418. Versailles : Louis XVLs Library. Designed by J. A. Gabriel.Executed by A. Rousseau and his Sons (1774). How much more hospitable an aspect—though with inferior detail—ispresented by the Hotel de Soubise, built sixty years earlier, andapproached through a similar court, where, however, the…

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