Plate 16. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_du_Louvre" class="extiw" title="en:Palais du Louvre">Louvre</a> in Paris: elevation of the north facade facing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_Saint-Honor%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="en:Rue Saint-Honoré">Rue Saint-Honoré</a>.  From <i>Architecture françoise</i>, Tome 4, Livre 6. For Blondel's discussion of this plate (in French), see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1080359/f87.image.r=.langEN">p. 61 of tome 4</a> (at Gallica). This engraving was also published in Jean Mariette's <i>L'Architecture françoise</i>, 1738.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Louis_Le_Vau" class="extiw" title="w:en:Louis Le Vau"><span title="French architect">Louis Le Vau</span></a>
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between circa 1660 and circa 1674 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1674-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div> (design and construction)<br>1756 (publication of the plate in Blondel's <i>Architecture françoise</i>)
Scan from the original work: Réimpression [1904] de l'<i>Architecture françoise</i> de Jacques-François Blondel (Paris, 1752–1756).