. Art in France. FIG. Q39.— (The Luxembourg, Paris.). FIG. 940. TH. KIMERE. PHRYNE. (SEVRES CHINA. (Arts decoralifs.) be read in every city. In the majority of these,the nineteenth century placed Doric peristyleson the town halls and translated administra-tive centrahsation by a uniform eighteenth century is to be recognisedby the brilliant elegance with which it adornedFrench reason, like the graceful episcopalpalaces v/hich are found nestling in theshadow of old cathedrals. The seventeenthcentury was not entirely absorbed by Ver-sailles ; we come now and again up
. Art in France. FIG. Q39.— (The Luxembourg, Paris.). FIG. 940. TH. KIMERE. PHRYNE. (SEVRES CHINA. (Arts decoralifs.) be read in every city. In the majority of these,the nineteenth century placed Doric peristyleson the town halls and translated administra-tive centrahsation by a uniform eighteenth century is to be recognisedby the brilliant elegance with which it adornedFrench reason, like the graceful episcopalpalaces v/hich are found nestling in theshadow of old cathedrals. The seventeenthcentury was not entirely absorbed by Ver-sailles ; we come now and again upon austeremansions of the time of Louis XIV, whichseem to embody the somewhat morose loyaltyof old parliamentarians. The joyousness ofthe Renaissance is revealed in its exuberantand spontaneous architecture, its stone fan-tasies, its gay turrets and sunny gardens. Buithe eye always returns to the Gothic cathedral,buttressed by the houses that cluster round itsfeet that it may raise its vault the higher andpoint heavenwards with its spire, an evidence451 ART IN FR
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