THE DECLINE: P. Bourbon, 1722; T.H. Rouen; Halle aux Blés (recently demolished), 1748; École Militaire, 1752-58, by _Gabriel_; P. Louvre, court completed, 1754, by the same; Madeleine begun, 1764; H. des Monnaies (Mint), by _Antoine_; École de Médecine, 1774, by _Gondouin_; P. Royal, Great Court, 1784, by _Louis_; Théâtre Français, 1784 (all the above at Paris); Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux, 1785-1800, by _Louis_; Préfecture at Bordeaux, by the same; Ch. de Compiegne, 1770, by _Gabriel_; P. Versailles, theatre by the same; H. Montmorency, Soubise, de Varennes, and the Petit Luxembourg, all at Paris, by _de Cotte_; public squares at Nancy, Bordeaux, Valenciennes, Rennes, Reims. CHAPTER XXIII. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS. BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Fergusson, Palustre. Also, Belcher and Macartney, _Later Renaissance Architecture in England_. Billings, _Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland_. Blomfield, _A Short History of Renaissance Architecture in England_. Britton, _Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain_. Ewerbeck, _Die Renaissance in Belgien und Holland_. Galland, _Geschichte der Hollandischen Baukunst im Zeitalter der Renaissance_. Gotch and Brown, _Architecture of the Renaissance in England_. Loftie, _Inigo Jones and Wren_. Nash, _Mansions of England_. Papworth, _Renaissance and Italian Styles of Architecture in Great Britain_. Richardson, _Architectural Remains of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I._ Schayes, _Histoire de l’architecture en Belgique_. +THE TRANSITION.+ The architectural activity of the sixteenth century in England was chiefly devoted to the erection of vast country mansions for the nobility and wealthy _bourgeoisie_. In these seignorial residences a degenerate form of the Gothic, known as the Tudor style, was employed during the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., and they still retained much of the feudal aspect of the Middle Ages. This style, with its broad, square windows and ample halls, was well suited to domestic architecture, as well as to collegiate buildings, of which a considerable number were erected at this time. Among the more important palaces and manor-houses of this period are the earlier parts of Hampton Court, Haddon and Hengreave Halls, and the now ruined castles of Raglan and Wolterton. [Illustration: FIG. 184.--BURGHLEY HOUSE.]