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Rh destroyed in 1871. The plan, as given by Du Cerceau (Fig. 119), is symmetrical, but it is broken by projecting bays and angle pavilions more pronounced than those of the Louvre.

These features, survivals of the mediæval plan, distinguish the French Renaissance architecture from that of Italy to the last.

The external façade (Fig. 120) has a single story with an attic of broken outline, and in it the architect made use of a peculiar