Les plus excellents bastiments de France
Les plus excellents bastiments de France is a set of architectural engravings by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, published in France in the sixteenth century and reissued here in 1870 for architects and students of building. The plates show French royal and noble châteaux as elevations, plans and bird's-eye views. A designer could draw on their ordered symmetry, tall window rhythms, classical pilasters and formal parterre gardens for historical or period-styled layouts.
