. Art in France. also to be found for God. Thechurch buih by Mansart andRobert de Colte, was connectedwith the palace, to enable LouisXIV to enter it from the level ofhis apartments. Architecture, likeall the other arts, was unaffectedby the melancholy of the had the Jesuit style achievedsuch a degree of worldly elegance ;. FIG. 510.—RAOI X I)\MK UOllllKKAS A MSTAL. (Musiuiu of \crsaillcs.) nc. 500. — KAOl \. \KST\ (Museum of Montpcllicr.) compare with them in Versailles, God was served afterthe king; but He was lodged moreagreeably (Fig. 483). The same eleganc


. Art in France. also to be found for God. Thechurch buih by Mansart andRobert de Colte, was connectedwith the palace, to enable LouisXIV to enter it from the level ofhis apartments. Architecture, likeall the other arts, was unaffectedby the melancholy of the had the Jesuit style achievedsuch a degree of worldly elegance ;. FIG. 510.—RAOI X I)\MK UOllllKKAS A MSTAL. (Musiuiu of \crsaillcs.) nc. 500. — KAOl \. \KST\ (Museum of Montpcllicr.) compare with them in Versailles, God was served afterthe king; but He was lodged moreagreeably (Fig. 483). The same elegance character-ises the sculpture of the had profited by the greatdecorative effort works of the seventeenthcentury after Coysevox and Girar-don, all display a dexterity ofexecution, a sleight of hand whichwere sometimes lacking among the 244 THE END OF LOUIS XIVS REIGN


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