A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . FRONTISIIUrK 1(1 PERRAULTs VITRUVIUS, ED. 1685, SHOWING THK ARC UK Ill !?; DU TRUXK, THE LOUVRE, AND THE OBSERVATOIRU I, 10 KACIi r. l]. A History of French Architecture 1661—1774 1^ CHAPTER I Louis XIV, Colbert, and the Academies ^HE death of Mazarin marks the end of a long and variedchapter in the history of the art of France and the rise of anew era which will close in a far more definite manner beforethe French Revolution. In previous volumes I have endeavoured toshow how French archit
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . FRONTISIIUrK 1(1 PERRAULTs VITRUVIUS, ED. 1685, SHOWING THK ARC UK Ill !?; DU TRUXK, THE LOUVRE, AND THE OBSERVATOIRU I, 10 KACIi r. l]. A History of French Architecture 1661—1774 1^ CHAPTER I Louis XIV, Colbert, and the Academies ^HE death of Mazarin marks the end of a long and variedchapter in the history of the art of France and the rise of anew era which will close in a far more definite manner beforethe French Revolution. In previous volumes I have endeavoured toshow how French architecture, without losing touch of the great build-ing tradition of France, moved steadily forward from the experimentsin the Italian manner introduced by Francois I, to an assured andwholly national architecture which culminated in the beautiful art ofFrancois Mansart. The master builders in the sixteenth century gaveway reluctantly to the trained architect, such as De LOrme andBuUant, Du Perac and the younger Du Cerceau. To Solomon deBrosse succeeded the generation of Le Mercier, Le Muet and FrancoisMansart, and Louis Le Vau, ponderous but competent, carried on thetradition down to the date of the foundation of the French Academy ofA
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