. Art in France. gned houses for the richcitizens. The prosperityand the reconstruction ofBordeaux fortunately coin-cided with the momentwhen French architecture, which could no longer build line churches, was constructing delight-ful town houses. All the France of the Adantic coast, Bordeaux,Nantes, Lorient, was turning a smiling face to the Ocean at the veryhour when the command of the sea was slipping from her (Fig. 627).The France of the South was not behindhand. Toulouse, as washer habit, transposed the fashionable buildings of the day into brick,and gave her Capitol a fagade imitated fro
. Art in France. gned houses for the richcitizens. The prosperityand the reconstruction ofBordeaux fortunately coin-cided with the momentwhen French architecture, which could no longer build line churches, was constructing delight-ful town houses. All the France of the Adantic coast, Bordeaux,Nantes, Lorient, was turning a smiling face to the Ocean at the veryhour when the command of the sea was slipping from her (Fig. 627).The France of the South was not behindhand. Toulouse, as washer habit, transposed the fashionable buildings of the day into brick,and gave her Capitol a fagade imitated from the colonnade of theLouvre, though the columns have become simple pilasters, and theToulousain brick gives a certain heaviness to Perraults noble the Fontaine of Nfmes, and the Peyrou of Montpellier (), architects laid out delightful public promenades, with fountains,flowers, trees and terraces, bounded by flights of steps or borderedby balustrades, with a slender pavilion dominating the whole;. FIG. 627.—THE PLACE DE LA BOVRSE, BORDEAUX. {Photo. Keurdein.) 295 ART IN FRANCE
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