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)
tioned. Inthe course of a long career, as city architect, begun before the Revolutionand extending beyond the Empire, he largely altered the aspect of hisnative city by laying out the Places Graslin, Louis XVI., and Royale, theCours Henri IV. and Cambronne, and designing the Bourse, the cloth… … 461. Paris The Rue de Rivoli, by Percier andFontaine. THK STYLE OK Tllli KMPIRE. 491 and indeed beyond it — manyliotels and country houses are tobe found conforming, with butslight variations, to the type in-troduced in the last years beforethe Revolution, of which theHotels de Brunoy and de…
