. Art in France. Klli. 013.—THREK-BRANCHtUCANDELABRA. (Jones Collection.) riC. 013.—( I1.\N1> OK rllASEDIIR ASS. (Uibiiotheque Mazarine, Paris.) a circlenow aboutmonuments with inoffensive sym-bols, two fountains and anobelisk. But the essential fea-tures of the scheme were Ga-briels two symmetrical palaces,with colonnades on lower storeys;ihev show an advance on theLouvre colonnade. Gabriel () treated large architecturalmasses with greater ease thanClaude Perrault; his long fagades,with their flat lines, harmonise,strange to sav, with the pleasanthouses built during the eightee

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. Art in France. Klli. 013.—THREK-BRANCHtUCANDELABRA. (Jones Collection.) riC. 013.—( I1.\N1> OK rllASEDIIR ASS. (Uibiiotheque Mazarine, Paris.) a circlenow aboutmonuments with inoffensive sym-bols, two fountains and anobelisk. But the essential fea-tures of the scheme were Ga-briels two symmetrical palaces,with colonnades on lower storeys;ihev show an advance on theLouvre colonnade. Gabriel () treated large architecturalmasses with greater ease thanClaude Perrault; his long fagades,with their flat lines, harmonise,strange to sav, with the pleasanthouses built during the eighteenth 290 PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI century in the two ad-jacent quarters of SaintHonore and Saint Ger-main, some of which, suchas the former Hotel deSalm (now the Palace ofthe Legion dHonneur),are little masterpieces intheir ingenuity of arrange-ment and their originalbeauty. Gabriel rankswith Mans art as theFrench architect who mostsuccessfully applied the.

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