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The architecture of the renaissance in France : a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)

Ward, William Henry, 1865-1924 · London : B.T. Batsford ; New York : Scribner · leaf 268

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ced in the front blocks, which otherwise usually presented a forbidding blank wall, at least in the lower storey, where a monu¬ mental coach entrance is the only thing to proclaim the presence of a great house. The entrance-pavilion disappears in hotels and tends to do so even in chateaux. But the… … better houses, and both words 217. Chateau de Courances : have become synonymous with Entrance Pavilion. W.C. in modern French. Drawn by P. Ilepworth.

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