. Art in France. FIG. 625.—THE HAMLET OF THE PETIT TRIANON. 294 this refractory peninsula toFrench life. The city ofBordeaux, growing con-tinuously in wealth, em-bellished itself in the LouisXVI style; the architectVictor Louis (17311807) completed thework begun there byGabriel the elder. Hebuilt the large theatre,one of the finest examplesof the French classicalstyle. The fagades are PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 626.—THE COLONNADE IN THE PARC MONCEAU,AT PARIS. very pure in design, andthe internal arrangementsso happy both as regardsconvenience and deco-rative effect that ar
. Art in France. FIG. 625.—THE HAMLET OF THE PETIT TRIANON. 294 this refractory peninsula toFrench life. The city ofBordeaux, growing con-tinuously in wealth, em-bellished itself in the LouisXVI style; the architectVictor Louis (17311807) completed thework begun there byGabriel the elder. Hebuilt the large theatre,one of the finest examplesof the French classicalstyle. The fagades are PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 626.—THE COLONNADE IN THE PARC MONCEAU,AT PARIS. very pure in design, andthe internal arrangementsso happy both as regardsconvenience and deco-rative effect that architectshave imitated them eversince, without improvmgon them. Louis also de-signed 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 Font
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