A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 (1921)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London : G. Bell and sons, ltd. · leaf 112
ied 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… … o o s [l. lO FACF. P. 64 FRANCOIS DORBAY 65 Le Vau died in 1670, and was buried at S. Germain LAuxerrois,opposite the Louvre, the scene of his earlier triumphs and in the latteryears of his life of his most bitter disappointment. Other men weresuperseding- him, and his manner was already out of…
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