The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . left untouched; this,however, is not the case in France, and particularly in thesouth, where streets of early houses are still to be found in goodpreservation, such as those at Cluny (fig. i) and Cordes (Tarn),and others at Monlferrand, Cahors, Figeac, Angers, Provins,Sarlat (fig. 2), St Emilion, Perigueux, Soissons and Beauvais,dating from the 12th to the 14th centuries. One of the mostremarkable examples is the Musicians House at Reims (seePlate I., fig. 4), with large windows on the first floor
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . left untouched; this,however, is not the case in France, and particularly in thesouth, where streets of early houses are still to be found in goodpreservation, such as those at Cluny (fig. i) and Cordes (Tarn),and others at Monlferrand, Cahors, Figeac, Angers, Provins,Sarlat (fig. 2), St Emilion, Perigueux, Soissons and Beauvais,dating from the 12th to the 14th centuries. One of the mostremarkable examples is the Musicians House at Reims (seePlate I., fig. 4), with large windows on the first floor, betweenwhich are niches with hfe-size figures of musicians seated inthem. Generally speaking, the ground storeys of these houses,which in many cases were occupied by shops, have been trans-formed, but occasionally the old shop fronts remain, as inDinan, Morlaix and other old towns in Brittany. Houses ofthe first Renaissance of great beauty exist in Orleans, such asthe house of Agnes Sorel; and the example in the Market Placeillustrated in fig. 3; in Tours, Tristans house in brick with stone. Fig. I.—Houses at Cluny. quoins and dressings to windows; in Rouen, Caen, Bayeux,Toulouse, Dijon and, in fact, in almost every town throughoutFrance. Of houses of large dimensions, which in France aretermed hotels, there are also many other fine examples, the bestknown of which are the hotel de Jacques Cceur (see Plate II.,fig. 7), at Bourges, and the hotel de Cluny at Paris (seePlate I., fig. 6). In the 15th and 16th centuries in France,owing to the value of the sites in towns, the houses rose to manystoreys, the upper of which were built in half-timber, sometimesprojecting on corbels and richly carved; of these numerousexamples exist at Rouen, Beauvais, Bayeux and other towns inNormandy and Brittany. Of such structures in English towns(see Plate II. fig. g) there are still preserved some examplesin York, Southampton, Chester, Shrewsbury, Stratford-on-Avon, and many smaller towns; the
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