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chap. xii
LESCOT AND DE L'ORME
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nothing whatever of mediæval character. In its present condition it is, indeed, very different from what it was originally. It first (1550) stood on the corner of two streets with a façade
Fig. 116.—Du Cerceau's engraving of the Fountain of the Nymphs.
of two bays on one street and a return of one bay on the other. In 1788 it was taken down and reerected in the square of the Innocents on a square plan, a fourth façade being then added. Figure 116, from an engraving by Du Cerceau,[1] illustrates the
- ↑ Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France, plate 69.
