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[France, continued]

‘T. Hardouin-Mansart's Dôme des Invalides, Paris (c. 1675[ce]),* is generally agreed to be unquestionably the finest church of the last half of the 17th century [ce] in France (Figure 75).

The correctness and precision of its form, ** the harmony and balance of its spaces, and the soaring*** figure of its dome make it a landmark not only of the Paris skyline but of European Baroque architecture.****

‘After Nicolas Pineau returned to France from Russia, he, with Gilles-Marie Oppenordt & Juste-Aurèle Meissonier, with their increasing concern for asymmetry,# created the full Rococo. Meissonier & Oppenordt should be noted too for their exquisite, imaginative architectural designs, unfortunately never built (e.g. facade of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1726[ce],#** by Meissonier).

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*2048ms~|GR~1664[ce]

64r~|S~1672[ce]

**s~

***↑

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****{illus[tration], [[Redbook9:331][19910511:1000bb]{‘The Baroque’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (28)]}[11th May 1991],] 331}

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#NB c[irca] R~?

#*2048GRR~|

64C1728[ce]

#**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:] 1017(-1018)

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