A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 (1921)
Blomfield, Reginald, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell · leaf 115
ed down to the edge of the cornice without any blockingcourse, and the coarseness of detail throughout the facade. Blondel,who was fully alive to his shortcomings, says he was considered un des plus habiles hommes de son tems. Able he may have beenas a man of affairs, but he was neither an artist… … D a; a o b wo>5 [I. lO IACK, r. 64 FRANQOIS DORBAY 65 Le Vau died in 1670, and was buried at S. Germain LAuxerrois,opposite the Louvre, the scene of his earher triumphs and in the latteryears of his Hfe of his most bitter disappointment. Other men weresuperseding him, and his manner was already…
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