. Art in France. FIC. 704.—DUC. P.* DE JlSTICE. ON THE PLACE DAIPHINE. 379 ART IN FRANCE. rii;. 795.— VAUI)KliMt,U. IHlKlH OFSAINT-PIEKRE AT MONTROUGE. ries, which were not simultane-ously conceived. The Restoration and the JulyMonarchy abstained from vastmunicipal enterprises. LouisPhilippes prmcipal commissionswere for fountains in the publicsquares and at cross roads. Guillondesigned those of the Place de laConcol-de, Visconti that of thePlace Louvois, of Moliere and ofSaint Sulpice; imitating Paris, thecities of Bordeaux and Nimes setup nymphs in the style of Pradieron t
. Art in France. FIC. 704.—DUC. P.* DE JlSTICE. ON THE PLACE DAIPHINE. 379 ART IN FRANCE. rii;. 795.— VAUI)KliMt,U. IHlKlH OFSAINT-PIEKRE AT MONTROUGE. ries, which were not simultane-ously conceived. The Restoration and the JulyMonarchy abstained from vastmunicipal enterprises. LouisPhilippes prmcipal commissionswere for fountains in the publicsquares and at cross roads. Guillondesigned those of the Place de laConcol-de, Visconti that of thePlace Louvois, of Moliere and ofSaint Sulpice; imitating Paris, thecities of Bordeaux and Nimes setup nymphs in the style of Pradieron their fountains. But it wasmore especially under the SecondEmpire that Paris was methodi-cally transformed. Political causeshastened this metamorphosis; the old city of the Cabochiens, ofthe League, of the Fronde, of 1792, 1830 and 1848, the Paris ofrevolutions, was difhcult to hold; Louis XVI, Charles X andLouis Philippe had felt the irksomeness of being shut up in theTuileries, the prisoners of their subjects. Under Louis Philippe,at the slightest alarm, the network of narrow streets bristled with ba
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