Identifier: histfrencharchlouisxv01blomuoft (find matches)
Title: A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Blomfield, Reginald, Sir, 1856-1942
Subjects: Architecture -- France History
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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X z o I. TO FACE I. 11 3) LE PAUTRE 113 his training had stopped short of what was expected of a first-classarchitect at the time. But he was a most ingenious planner, and histreatment of the site of the Hotel de Beauvais is one of the ablestpieces of planning in the whole range of French domestic archi-tecture in the seventeenth century, and in a remarkable passage(to which I have already referred)^ Sauval includes it in his listof houses that represented the last word in domestic architecture.The Hotel was built for Pierre de Beauvais and Catherine Henriette,his wife, first Lady of the Bedchamber to Anne of Austria, and it wasfrom this house that the latter watched the entry of the King andQueen into Paris on 26th August, 1660. In spite of this high socialpurpose, the Ground Floor, on the front to the Rue S. Antoine, wasarranged for shops having no connection with the main building, anarrangement similar to that followed by Le Vau in the College desOuatre Nations, and a curious anti

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