 What little there is started with Charles de Wailly's crypt in the church of St Leu-St Gilles (1773–80), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux's "Barriere des Bonshommes" (1785-9).First-hand evidence of Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French, due to the influence of Marc-Antoine Laugier's doctrines that sought to discern the principles of the Greeks instead of their mere practices.It would take until Laboustre's Neo-Grec of the second Empire for the Greek revival to flower briefly in France.