Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 158
o accompany the sculptured ornamentsof the walls. The tiresome length of monotonousgallery running eastward from the Pavilion de Florewas happily and intentionally broken by the largegateway called the GiiicJiets des Saints Pires, by thetwin pavilions of that gateway, and the masses ofbuilding on… … The Tuileries and the Luxembourg. 97 above the cornice, though not above the roof. Bythese devices the great fault of the river front, inor-dinate length, is made less visible. As for perfectionof detail, there has never been any epoch of Frencharchitecture in which the essentially national style…
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