. Art in France. 1>1 BW. iiil Kl UK WW Kl 1)1 l: DKSBKAIX-.\RTS, PARIS. 378 NATURALISM. FIG. 793.—BIRD S EYE VIEW OF THELOUVRE. fPhoto, from Paris vu en ballon, by A. Schoelcher and (). Decugis.) building. Certain squares of classic regularity had been introduced into the confused Paris of the Middle Ages. But it was more especially in the nineteenth century that ancient towns were transformed, and innumerable houses were given that unity of style and that symmetry which had hitherto been reserved for a palace, a church, or a public square. Napoleon had not had time to ex-ecute the grandios
. Art in France. 1>1 BW. iiil Kl UK WW Kl 1)1 l: DKSBKAIX-.\RTS, PARIS. 378 NATURALISM. FIG. 793.—BIRD S EYE VIEW OF THELOUVRE. fPhoto, from Paris vu en ballon, by A. Schoelcher and (). Decugis.) building. Certain squares of classic regularity had been introduced into the confused Paris of the Middle Ages. But it was more especially in the nineteenth century that ancient towns were transformed, and innumerable houses were given that unity of style and that symmetry which had hitherto been reserved for a palace, a church, or a public square. Napoleon had not had time to ex-ecute the grandiose transformations he proposed in his capital; nevertheless, his Arc de Triomphe was undertaken, and prepared the way for the wide avenues bearing the names of generals and of batdes, which now radiate from the Etoile. At the Tuileries, Percier and Fontaine began the second arm which the palace was to stretch towards the Louvre, and the remains of the ancient structure were gradually banished from the quadrilateral as the junction neared completion. Pierre Lescots little pavilions, an
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