A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . ee courts cover-ing the ground up to the Tuileries. This plan was the finer of thetwo, and the courts were more reasonable, but there was again theserious defect that the axis line from east to west was blocked, andthough Blondel calls the idea of the great oval court grande et ilevie, itwould have been useless for any practical purpose, and appears tohave been little more than a piece of pedantry based on recollectionsof a motive in De LOrmes original scheme for the ^ The whole story
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . ee courts cover-ing the ground up to the Tuileries. This plan was the finer of thetwo, and the courts were more reasonable, but there was again theserious defect that the axis line from east to west was blocked, andthough Blondel calls the idea of the great oval court grande et ilevie, itwould have been useless for any practical purpose, and appears tohave been little more than a piece of pedantry based on recollectionsof a motive in De LOrmes original scheme for the ^ The whole story is admirably told in Perraults Memoires, pp. 86-89. Themodel showed the actual size and number of the stones and iron bars to be used in the!)uilding ou le fer ne porte rien et ne fait que retenir la poussee des architraves. • Including the main courts this design gave actually sixteen courts, exclusive ofareas. Another of Perraults ideas was to divide up the existing court of the Louvre intofive divisions, the centre division circular. This, he says, was to meet the criticism that Tl. XVI.
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