Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 310
grandiose arrangements of symme-trical architectiu-e adopted in the seventeenth century accordwith this simplicity of arrangement. The requirements of the present day are evidently morecomplex; they imply more specialised arrangements and morenumerous private communications and minor adjuncts:… … Fio. 3. The works of Le Muet and De Marot are in the libraries ofall architects; it is easy therefore, without enlarging on thearchitectural aiTangements of the great mansions of the seven-teenth centuiy, to understand the pomj^ous style adopted in theconstruction of these dwellings. In order to be…
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