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FRENCH RENAISSANCE.
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square internally, and attached to these, and forming two
sides of the court, are long wings containing the servants’
apartments and offices on one side, and offices and stabling
on the other. These are connected at the further end of the
court with the main building, in which the family resided, and
which contained the reception rooms. Behind this main
building was the garden, and in the centre of one side is
placed the chapel. Each of the side wings to the court
was generally one storey lower than the main building,
which contained the family apartments.
The above description applies equally to French town
houses, up to the present day, with slight modifications
dependent on site and local necessities.
Note.—In French country houses the windows face in-
ternally into a courtyard, as in the ancient Roman atrium
(the courtyard responding to the atrium), whereas in
English country houses after the time of Henry VII.
the windows all face outwards, a courtyard being an
exception.
CHURCHES.
St. Eustache, Paris (a.d. 1532) (No. 137). In plan,
it is a typical five-aisled Gothic church, with circular
apsidal end. As to the exterior, it has high roofs, a kind of
Renaissance tracery to the windows, flying buttresses, pin-
nacles, deeply-recessed portals, and other Gothic features,
clothed with Renaissance detail. The church is, in fact, laid
out on Gothic lines, but clothed with detail inspired from
Italian sources.
St. Etienne du Mont, Paris (a.d. 1537). The same
remarks apply as to St. Eustache; to be specially noted is the
famous rood-screen, with double staircases and carved balus-
trading in Renaissance detail, illustrating the highly deve-
loped technical ability of the masons of the period.
The Dome of the Invalides at Paris (1680-1706), by
Jules Hardouin Mansard, shows no Gothic tendency, and the
principles of the Italian Renaissance are paramount.
In plan it is a Greek cross, with the corners filled in so as
to make it a square externally. The dome (92 feet in
circumference) rests on eight piers. It is provided with
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square internally, and attached to these, and forming two
sides of the court, are long wings containing the servants’
apartments and offices on one side, and offices and stabling
on the other. These are connected at the further end of the
court with the main building, in which the family resided, and
which contained the reception rooms. Behind this main
building was the garden, and in the centre of one side is
placed the chapel. Each of the side wings to the court
was generally one storey lower than the main building,
which contained the family apartments.
The above description applies equally to French town
houses, up to the present day, with slight modifications
dependent on site and local necessities.
Note.—In French country houses the windows face in-
ternally into a courtyard, as in the ancient Roman atrium
(the courtyard responding to the atrium), whereas in
English country houses after the time of Henry VII.
the windows all face outwards, a courtyard being an
exception.
CHURCHES.
St. Eustache, Paris (a.d. 1532) (No. 137). In plan,
it is a typical five-aisled Gothic church, with circular
apsidal end. As to the exterior, it has high roofs, a kind of
Renaissance tracery to the windows, flying buttresses, pin-
nacles, deeply-recessed portals, and other Gothic features,
clothed with Renaissance detail. The church is, in fact, laid
out on Gothic lines, but clothed with detail inspired from
Italian sources.
St. Etienne du Mont, Paris (a.d. 1537). The same
remarks apply as to St. Eustache; to be specially noted is the
famous rood-screen, with double staircases and carved balus-
trading in Renaissance detail, illustrating the highly deve-
loped technical ability of the masons of the period.
The Dome of the Invalides at Paris (1680-1706), by
Jules Hardouin Mansard, shows no Gothic tendency, and the
principles of the Italian Renaissance are paramount.
In plan it is a Greek cross, with the corners filled in so as
to make it a square externally. The dome (92 feet in
circumference) rests on eight piers. It is provided with