. Art in France. storeys, windows described a graceful curve, in the latest style of Gothic, and sometimes, as at Salnt-Quentin, a row of gables crowned the fagade; they formed a circle, together with the gables of private houses, round the great Place. The Town-Hall of Compiegne (Fig. 187), on the other hand, is very different in aspect; it is built in the style which was evolved in the heart of France after the Hundred Years War, a style more akin to the massive architecture of feudal times. Like the Hotel de Cluny, and Jacques Ccsurs house, itis a graceful and soberly-decorated building, no
. Art in France. storeys, windows described a graceful curve, in the latest style of Gothic, and sometimes, as at Salnt-Quentin, a row of gables crowned the fagade; they formed a circle, together with the gables of private houses, round the great Place. The Town-Hall of Compiegne (Fig. 187), on the other hand, is very different in aspect; it is built in the style which was evolved in the heart of France after the Hundred Years War, a style more akin to the massive architecture of feudal times. Like the Hotel de Cluny, and Jacques Ccsurs house, itis a graceful and soberly-decorated building, not,like the town-halls ofFlanders, open to thepasser-by, and permittingthe seething life of thetown to penetrate underits vaults, but more akinto a civic hall under apowerful monarchy, wherepublic functions conferreda kind of nobility, andwhere an equestrian statueof the king was proudly enshrined. The Rouen Palace of Justice shows the wealth of graceful ornament Gothic architecture could lavish on a fajade. 97 H. 193- — FIREPLACE IN THE GREAT HALL OF THEPALAIS DE JUSTICE, POITIERS. ART IN FRANCE
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