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 | | There are also throughout France, both in town and country, numerous Renaissance buildings of varying degrees of importance, such as the House of Agnes Sorel, Orleans, the Hotel de Bourgtheroulde, Rouen, and the Hotel de Ville, Beaugency, a beautiful instance of municipal architecture. |
 | | In French country houses of this period, of which the Chateau de Bury is typical, the internal court, originally designed for security, was retained ; whereas in England, after the time of Henry VII, the closed court had become an exception. |
 | | The earliest indications of Renaissance in France, as in England, occur in sepulchral monuments, pulpits, portals, and fittings of existing Gothic churches, such as the Tomb of Louis XII (A.D. 1515) in S. Denis Cathedral (p. |
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