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Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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est elevation of the double columns of which it is composedseems scarcely sufficient for the distance to which it is prolonged. To de la Maire succeeded Boffrand,7 and we can hardly begrateful enough for the happy fate which, whilst housing withinthis palace the Archives Nationales, has left untouched so much of 1 1676-1745. DArg., Voyage. Paris, p. 252. 2 Blondel, Architecture Francaise, t. i., p. 236. 3 Guiffrey, « LHotel de Soubise ; G. B. A., 1869 ; also In. gen. Mon. civ. Paris,t. i., p. 29 ; de Champeaux, Monuments de Paris, p. 223 ; Curiositez de Paris,ed. 1742, t. i., p. 277. 4 De Luynes, 14 Jan., 1753. 5 At the doorway opening on the rue des Francs Bourgeois were placed statues ofHercules and Pallas by Guillaume Coustou le jeune. In. gen. Mon. civ. Paris, t. i., p. 33. 8 Curiositez de Paris, t. i., p. 278. T 1667-1754. R. Acad. Arch. 1709. A. de lA. fr., t. i., p. 420. For his work in theHotel de Soubise, see his Livre dArchitecture, pp. 97, 98, and lxi, lxii, and Ixiii. I O
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Hotel de Soubise, Pavillon dAngle (Archives Nationales). To face p. 10 the original distribution of the rooms for which he planned the The most famous decorations of the century. Though there is no Modern • i i i -i i i r i • i a i t House evidence that he contributed to the reconstruction or this hotel, 1 and the am strongly inclined to attribute to him the erection of the Pavilion GreatdAngle and part of the building near it, on account of the greatsimilarity, not only of general style, but of actual detail, which itpresents with the treatment of the facade of the ChancelleriedOrleans1 (1706), a work of even greater importance (though ona lesser scale), if we take it as an example of Boffrands share inthe creation of the luxurious modern house. This hotel, whichstands in the rue des Bons Enfants, is still—although the effectof the beautiful front, with its terrace looking on to the gardensof the Palais Royal, has been ruined—one of the best examplesnow remaining for those wh

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