A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . rooms en suite with one main staircase and two subordinate stairs. ForM. Henselin Le Vau also designed a town house in the Isle NotreDame^ in Paris, on a rather unusual plan. The site was too narrowto complete the whole of the design seen from the back, so Le Vauavailed himself of the adjoining site to provide a symmetrical facade onthe returns to the court, an early instance of a practice that becamecommon in the eighteenth century. The Chateau de Turny in Burgundy, if by Le Vau, must havebeen a
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . rooms en suite with one main staircase and two subordinate stairs. ForM. Henselin Le Vau also designed a town house in the Isle NotreDame^ in Paris, on a rather unusual plan. The site was too narrowto complete the whole of the design seen from the back, so Le Vauavailed himself of the adjoining site to provide a symmetrical facade onthe returns to the court, an early instance of a practice that becamecommon in the eighteenth century. The Chateau de Turny in Burgundy, if by Le Vau, must havebeen a fine house. Marot illustrates it in plates, and the planwith salon and the vestibule in the centre, the huge cupola, and certaindetails of the design, are characteristic of Le Vau. Unfortunately Marotomitted the name of the architect, but this may have been a mature Marots scale is in toises (fathoms). The entrance hall, 60 feet by 37 feet, with itscolumns and its double flight of stairs leading out of it, suggested interesting possibilitiesin the design. No. 24, Quai de Bethune. Pi,. IV. jiuijiujaillroijic-m£ elagepar URoijetm ct cajin. acluvcaiu^i&l. \Pcrclle VINCENNES AS KNLAKGED RY LE VAU (see p. 59)
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