THE ART OF BUILDING

OF

COUNTRY HOUSES

OV LON TRAITE

OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION,

& their Decoration.

Projects are given there over ten different lengths; for ten years

face cloths up to twenty-fix.
Four different Building Shapes on each of these lengths j with their

Elevations, their Cups, oh many Distributions as each of the Shapes.
Some other Forms of Buildings, some of which have their Avenue or Entrance

by one of their sides, oh the others oblique it, in relation to the constitution of

their Gardens.

WITH UEXPLICsiTlU N JJE THESE PROJECTS,

And Deffeins of Menuiferie, Locksmith, Parterres, ôc other Ornemens
suitable for interior decoration and exterior decoration.

ALL THESE SERIOUS DESIGNS AND DESIGNS.

Very useful work, non-feulement to bring together Maifons de Campagne} but at the same time
furnace build in Cities, & which can provide ideas for giving to the ancients
Buildings 3 of the more convenient Dijlrtbutions.

Speak Sîeur CE. Briseux, Architect.

FIRST VOLUME.




IN PARIS,
Chez Prault Pere, at the entrance to Quay de Gêvres, in Paradise.



M. D C C. X L I I I.

WITH APPRO B A TIO N AND PRIVILEGE DU ROY.


PREFACE

THE part of Architecture that looks at Diftribution,
is a reefource if advantageous, if it is useful
when it comes to finding in a small efpace
modities which are lacking are found in very large buildings
due, that it is astonishing that in the great number of Books
that have been unearthed, we see it treated only hard
slightly.

To add to the little attention we had for this
part, we thought we should make it my main object here,
favor of the students of all those who make proffEtion
of Architecture, are building enthusiasts.

The people who frequent the Provinces 9 recon- *
will be all the better for the birth of this Book,
that they favor the little arrangement that we obey in
the Buildings that are built there, If they saw
great Maifons Se of the Châteaux conîideables, which all
they believe, have very little accommodation
Se of amenities.

This defect comes from the difficulty of finding
a skillful architect, sometimes a challenge
to spare the reward that a good project deserves. In
one of the other of these cases, we blindly report
to people who have no talent for ima-
have a Diftribution game; or the right opinion
that we have my genius, that we flee from my own ideas: We
then raises Buildings, which after throwing in
cool costs, build a long repentance: Onrecon-
acknowledges, but too late, that a poorly conceived plan is a resource
continual new depQnfts; The changes


vj PREFACE.

that we have to do it fucceffectively, we prefer to-
cost so much at the end of a certain time, that chofemême;
nothing being more true in all the Arts, that one has more
barely rectify a bad delfein 3 than produce one
perfect.

The Author> to remedy these drawbacks, offers
in this Book, the fruit of his work Se from many
Se meditation searches. There will be a great
quantity of projects, which will help to
the less infiltrated people, when they want to
build 3 Se that will make use of all the different earths
<& the most bizarre fituations. The more we multiplied & diversified-
sified these projects, the more we tried to make them useful,
To increase freedom To complain about choice; House
don't pretend to have exhausted the Madeira, the taste for Dis-
tribution can vary endlessly.

Among so many examples that one propels, it can be
meet a few, where you don't also
fucked up; but the public owes some indulgence to the Ou-
long-range items $ ~ We are all the more eager
that he will want to have one for this one, that there is always
merit in communicating what we have acquired through
great experience Se a hard study, To strive to
perfect the Arts, which fans this goodwill Se
this emulation, would not have taken any increase. In
waiting for excellent geniuses to go up against the Author,
he will be very satisfied, if we are willing to thank him for the
nes he aprifies, to spread some light as one
of the most essential parts of Architecture.


IDÉE GÉNÉRALE DE CE LIVRE , 

ET SA DISTRIBUTION. 

A Fin que d'un feulcoup d'œil, on puilTe voir toute 
l'étendue Se toute l'utilité de cet Ouvrage , Se par- 
courir dans un moment un travail de beaucoup d'années , 
on va annoncer ici toutes les matières dont il eft compo- 
fé , en fuivant l'ordre dans lequel on a jugé qu'il étoit le 
plus à propos de les mettre. 

On n'y a rien négligé pour conduire pas à pas les moins 
éclairés dans l'Architeclure, Se les Elèves les moins doués 
de pénétration , jufqu'au point d'être en état de choifir une 
heureufe expofîtion 3 de diftribuer , de connoître les ma- 
tériaux , les préparer Se les employer , de fonder., de cons- 
truire , de décorer , en un mot , de donner aux Edifices 
de la folidité, de l'agrément, de la noblefTe ,Se des com- 
modités, qu'il ne fembloit pas qu'on dût elpérer dans un 
efpace étroit & peufavorilé de la nature. 

Pour leur inftruélion , l'on donne fiir vingt-deux lon- 
gueurs , fbixante-dix formes de Bâtimens , avec leurs Elé- 
vations, leurs Coupes , Se plufieurs Diftributions fur cha- 
que forme, tant pour le Rez-de-chaiuTée que pour le pre- 
mier Etage , qu'on a eu grand foin de diveriifïer; Se l'on 
y a joint tout ce qui eft nécelfaire Se relatif à l'art de bâtir. 

Comme on s'eft uniquement appliqué à ce qui peut 
être réellement avantageux , Se fe réduire à une pratique 
ordinaire , le Bourgeois , le Gentilhomme, Se le Seigneur 
qui aime l'ceconomie, pourront ici puifer des projets , 
chacun fuivant fon goût; Se ils fçauront comment il faut 
les exécuter, pour peu qu'ils ayent recours aux régies Se

VÎ!) GENERAL IDEA OF THIS LrVRÊ;

to the lights that we give: Those who refidenfc in the
Provinces Se in Foreign Countries, will find in this
Book of what to reify their taste: We can by my means
make dishes with more juftefle, & we make some
against everything prepared Se of extremely varied:
There will be no shortage of workers in the confeils.
will take to judge their Works: Finally we have nothing
dear of all that could infiltrate, satisfy s
buzz the audience.

This Book is divided into three ClarTes, each composed
two Volumes; So that by pafant from one to the other,
we could always find crazy fes eyes useful Helpful
diverfité, one shared Se combined the lengths fur les-
which building projects are provided, so that
in each Claïïe, there are small medium-sized Se
guards mixed alternately with larger ones; &
in the same view, we also distributed different
Notice, Se des deifeins for Interior Decorations Se
outside.

In the first Volume of the first ClaiTe, we
speaks of the general difpofition Se of the expofition of the principal
cipal Body Se of particular Buildings of the Mnifons of
Campaign} Se of the way we should distribute them
with regard to their use; If we give each of the long
gueurs de dix 3 of thirteen} fifteen, eighteen Se twenty toifes
from the front, four forms of Buildings, with their Eléva-
tions Cut, Trust each form Diverribes Diftribu-
tions.

The fruitful Volume of this first Clafîe, contains
a project for a wine building ^ -fîx toifes front,
two projects for Buildings including the avenue is oblique,
another for a building whose avenue is on the side, Se
two for the Hotel of a Place Governor ”

Or



and its Distribution. ix

It deals with the faith of the Building, Se of all
materials suitable for building: We give there the way to trace
fur the earth the trenches of the foundations # of the Buildings;
of. solidly found them on earths of different nat
ture Se fur le roc; to establish a Pilotis; to complete the trans-
foundation fountains up to the cellars establishment;
to establish the Caves; to build their walls
your; to flourish as the foundation masonry, the ern-
baffling of the Buildings: It violates it that should be
the thickness of the walls of the Country Maifons; their con {-
truélion until establishment of the first Floor; Com-
it is necessary to establish this first Floor; build my fa-
masonry, until the chimney pipes are closed;
the construction of the floor structure, the
wheat, Cloifons, Se des Efcaliers; & the grofleur of
wood entering it *

In order to form the taste of the pupils, we make reflections
xions fur what we must obferve to decorate judicieufe-
ment Gracefully the facades of Buildings; If these reflect
xions do accompanied by multiple deflins: We treat
besides the decoration of the Appartenons, Se Ton
various examples.

We prefer there what should be the wood sample of
Menuiferie, fùivant the works to which they make em-
bent: It provides deflins of Locksmithing; we do there
a detail of the irons entering the Buildings, Se Ton y
marks the grofleurs who suit their different ufa-
Age: Many paint impregnations for the Menuiferie,
Some Varnishes finish this Volume.

Finally this Claflè fe finds adorned with a hundred and twenty-four
Distributions, both for the ground floor and for the
first Floor, fifty-one Elevations, Se twenty-fix
Etched intaglio cups, in addition to ninety
Volume h b


X GENERAL IDEA OF THIS BOOK J

Ornamental boards, & other fept which were neceffax ^
res to facilitate the intelligence of some operations.

The third volume is the fourth volume constituting the->
conde ClafTe: There are four Shapes, each one
lengths of eleven, fourteen, feize, twenty-one, twenty-
three, Se twenty-five toifes from the front, with Diftributions,
Elevations and Cups, like at the first Claiîe?

To make this Clafle even more interesting than the first
miere, there we are. put on Deifeins for "decoration
interior, Se for the facades of Buildings; If she's-
comes all the more pleasant Se useful, that one gives there
Deffeins for Flowerbeds Se for other decorations
des Jardins, Se un Difcours fur their conftruétron. One
will give again in this ClafTe Se in the next
Projects for irregular locations.

The Latin Claffe, which includes the fifth Se
"Volume X, will offer four different forms
Distributions as each form, their Elevations Se their
Cuts, each for lengths of twelve, nineteen,
nineteen, twenty-two Se twenty-four toifes from the front.

As the art of decoration is inexhaustible}
the fruitfulness of genius can multiply it endlessly, we try
pleased to further enrich this Claffe with new Deifeins
for interior and exterior decorations of buildings;
To make it easier to loosen up, we add the five Orders
of Vignole Architecture, Some reflections on the
how to use them. A Hydraulic Treaty
venable to, Country Maifbns, ends all of the Ou *
vrage.

We must have noticed because we just said, that the Au-
tor tried to put the fujets which he dealt with, in
the order most suitable for teaching, and that it is abolutely
necessary to keep, when it comes to execution; Sç

and its Distribution. ' xj
the detail we give here, which we made the most precise
that he was poiïibie, so that he was less boring, made
stffez know the importance of the Work that we put
day, Se the benefits that one should receive.

Finally, so that everyone was within reach of the understanding
dre fans hardly take advantage of it, we had no
the attention to fe fervir the least that we could terms of
Art, but also that of giving an explanation in
form of Dictionary, of all those we have been in
the obligation to use.

Before we finish, we think we should prevent the objection
that we can do, far from starting with
Orders of Architecture, as well as the ordinary method
I ask for it, we don't talk about it until the end of this
Delivered. We will therefore answer in advance, that having
main object of the Se Distribution of the Construction of
Particular buildings, it was reasonable to fill this
object, before dealing with these Orders, which does not belong
proper to the Palaces Se to the Public Buildings, Se
that we can say to be here only hors d'oeuvre
so that the Reader does not need to resort elsewhere,
to make me aware of all the eifential parts of
Architecture.


TABLE

CHAPTERS



OF THE FIRST VOLUME.



FIRST PART.

Containing some reflections on the general difpofîtion
The exhibition of the main Corps de Logis 3 Sç des
B ^ particular timens, & c.

Chapter I. Of the general distribution of the Maifons of

Campaign, & their exhibition 3 P a g 1

Chap. II. Offices & Who's fine, 3
Chap. III. From the Serre de l'Orangerie 3 & from the Apartment

des Bains y j *
Chap. IV. Stables & Remifes 3 8
Chap. V. Greniers deflinés out of the Grains> &

Chmil> he
Chap. VI. De la Glacière 3 ^ means of preserving the

Ice & Snow, 13
Ch ap. VII. In the form of the Plan of the main Corps de Logis 3

& what to observe to place the Croifées 3 16
Chap. VIII. Of the diflribution of the Ground floor of the principal

Corps de Logis des Maifons de Campagne, 1 8

Chap. IX. From the diflribution of the first Floor of the Maifons.

from Country ^ 26

SECOND PART.

Which includes several Distributions on four formats
my different s their Elevations & their Cups, for
construct a building with ten fronts.

Chapter I. / ^) E the first form, containing three different
Dividings 3 blanks both for the ground floor and for
the first Floor, with the Elevation of the Face fur the Court,
& that of the Face on the Garden, & their Cup, 29

ChaP. II. From the fertile form of a building of ten
side 3 which forms two different Diftribti "
I have the Elevations of the Faces on the Court & on the
Garden, & their Cup. 36 *

Chap. III. The third form of a building with ten roofs
from the front, where we will find three different Diftributions
this form, with the Elevations of the two Faces; & their
^ pe, '42

Chap. IV. From the fourth form of a Building of ten toifes
from the front 3 where we give two different Diftributions t
the Elevations of the two sides} & their Section, 47

THIRD PART.

Where do several Distrributions for four form
my deferents, their Elevations & their Cups, for

construct a building of thirteen toifes from the front.

Ht

Chapter 1> J_) e the first form, where we give
two different Diftributions, both for the Ground floor}
only for the first Floor, with their Elevations at the Court
& fur the Garden, & their Soup% 5 ^


xv TABLE OF CHAPTERS

Chap. II. Fruitful form of a building of thirteen toifes
from the front, which are given by two different Diflribu-
with the Elevations at the Court & at the Garden, &
their Cup y jtf

Chap. III. From the third form of a Thirteen Thou Building "
fes from the front, where we see two different Diflributions 3 their
Elevations to the Court & to the Garden 3 & their Section 3 64

Chap. IV. From the fourth form of a Building of thirteen toi-
fes de face, to which we give two different Diflributions 3
their Elevations to the Court & to the Garden} & their Neck "
eg 68



FOURTH PART.

In which fe many Diflributions find qua-
be different shapes} their Elevations & their Cou-
pes, to construct a building of fifteen roofs of
face.

Chapter I.J_) e the first Form 3 at which we give
two different Diflributions} for the Ground floor & for
the first Floor 3 with their Elevations at the Court & at
ie Garden- 3 & their Cup, 73

Chap. II. From the second form of a Building of fifteen toi-
fes de face, where fe find two different Diflributions, their
Elevations over the Court & over the Garden, & their Section 3 78

Chap. III. Of the third form of a building of fifteen roofs
fes de face 3 where we offer two different Diflributions,
Elevations of the two Faces 3 Ù 1 their Section 3 83

Chap. IV. From the fourth form of a Building of fifteen toi-
fes de face 3 or paroiffent two different diflributions 3 the
Elevations to the Court & to the Garden 3 & their Section 3 88



OF THE FIRST TOME.


PART FIVE.

In which we give several Dributions lîir four
different shapes, their Elevations & their Cups,
to fervor in the construction of an Eighteen Building
front toifes.

Chah ^ lDe U ^ reform, okton von noU ^
rens Distribution plans 3 for the Ground Floor, & for
the first Floor 3 their Elevations at the Court & at the Jar-
din 3 with their Cup> 93

Chap, II. From the second form of an Eighteen Building
toifes de face 3 where there are two different Diftributions 9
their two Elevations 3 <leurr their Cup, 99

Chap. III. From the third form of an Eighteen Building
toifes de face 3 fur which form we offer two different Dif
tributions, their Elevations 9 & their Cup, 103

Chap. IV. From the fourth form of an Eighteen Building
toifes from the front, to which form we give three different diftri-
butions 3 with their Elevations at the Court & at the Garden 3
& their Cup, 1 1 o

PART SIX.

Which contains several Distributions over four different forms
ferent, their Elevations at the Court At the Garden,
Get their Cups, to construct a building of twenty
front toifes.

Chapter 1.

D

E the first form, where we find fept diff-
férentes Diftributions, their Elevations at Court & Fury
Garden "& three Cups} ddd



xvj TABLE OF CHAPTERS.

Chap. II. Fruitful form of a building of twenty toifèf
from the front, where you find two different Dijlributions 3 their
elevations over the Court & over the Garden 3 & their Section, 129

Chap. III. Of the third form of a building of twenty roofs
the front; which form 3 we offer different fix Dijlri-
butions their elevations fur Cour '& fur the Garden, &
their Cup, 134

Chap. IV. From the fourth form of a building of twenty toi- '
fes from the front, or contain five different Dijlributions j
their Elevations to the Court & to the Garden 3 & their Cou-
eg 146



pine of the Table of Chapters of Volume 1.


ART



THE ART OF BUILDING

DES

CAMPAGNE HOUSES.

PART ONE.

Containing Reflections from General Diffusion and Exposure
tion of the main body of Logis 3 & of the particular Batimens
who must accompany him.

On the confluence of the Orangerie} des Ecuries 3 des Greniers at
Bled 3 of the Glacier Kennel.

And the Form & Distribution of these Maifons.



CHAPTER ONE.

From the general dissemination of the Maifons de Campagne,
& their Expoftion.

The general dissemination of the Maifons de Cam-
pagne, making all the approval of the first
at a glance, contributing to their com-
that is to say, they were about to place the Buildings
particular mens that make it necessary, she
calls for great attention on the part of the Architect;
T. I Part, h A


2 The Art of Bastions of Country Houses,
but he must not feign to take away ideas which
fbient beyond the faculties of the one who employs it.

The difference in locations being "infinite, there is no
not able to give specific & certain rules
îîir this matter: the difpofition of the Terrein, the main Entrance
cipal, the specific use of each Building, which must be
placed next to the deftination, finally the state of the person
who builds, must determine the order in which it
must arrange the Maifons of Campaign; & such fujets
only make general reflections.

The main Corps de Logis must always be directed
oppofé at the main entrance of the Court, Located
in front of the Garden: when this is not possible, it is necessary to
iron Building forms, such as we give some-
some in the first Part of the fruitful Volume.

Its expofition depends on the lltuation of Ion
location; but as far as it works, we must avoid
to explore the garden, on the south side, well
than that of the Sunset: the Levant is the most aipect
favorable: whoever is between the Levant and the North, can
to be here; it gives Efté a lot of freshness to
Apartments; but then face the court, then receives
all the violence of great rain. We can finally ex- ”
pofer the face fur the Garden, between the Levant Se le Midi;
this expofition is moderate; we would groan at y
to fear in some Provinces of the Sea Se
in certain fituations of places, the inconvenience of
high winds for the face of the Court. In the Pays Septen-
trionaux, Afpeét du Midi eft fain Pleasant, If it makes
the more enlightened Se apartments.

The main courtyard should be wider than the face of
the Maifon; so that when entering it, one has the approval of
cover part of the Gardens. It must be long



Chap. IT Offices and Kitchens. $
at least the diagonal of Your square has & we give it for
the least one inch of slope per toife, so that the waters
puhTent flow on the inlet side.

The Special Buildings of the Country Maifons ^
must be arranged in such an order, that they can acu
accompany, with some grace, the main Corps of
Logis: when they cannot be difpofed so that they
form a beautiful aipe6t, it is good to hide the view.



CHAPTER II.

Offices & Cuifmes.

WHEN the Cuifines are placed in the Body of
Logis, he transfers to the Let's belong to a
disgusting smell; & the continual noise we make there
very inconvenient for the Masters: this is what makes
dre usually the party to put them in a body of
Detached building. It’s easier then
give, as well as at the Offices, all the necessary conveniences
celfaires. As the state of the Master fixes the efpece & the quan-
nity of these amenities, we will not make any details:
will say loudly that the Architedle must fe to infiltrate, by
the officers, the things they need, and the order
in which he must place each piece appropriately
the use for which it is intended.

The most advantageous benefits for the building industry
Cuifines, do the following. We can put it on
the alignment of the face of the Logis Corps in the Garden,
observing to give more bankruptcy to this face. he can
be placed along a line parallel to the alignment of
the face before the Court; more or less bankrupt along this face,

4 The Art of Bastion of Country Houses>
fleeing that it will be necessary to preserve the views which will make breakthroughs
in the Gables of the Corps de Logis. We could go
move this Building into the Courtyard, so that You can learn
perceive between him & the Corps de Logis, an alley that
would find between this building a lawn bowling
of these Sprockets.

The Cuifines Building can still be killed between
the Ball-court Se the main Court; that is, finish
one side of the latter.

In these different portions, it is certain that if the
Corps de Logis is divided from this Building the width of
alleys that will complete the width of the Parterre, it will appear
more vividly, The view of the Court will please more
floor.

On the other hand, we must always be careful that the Building
Cuifines must be within reach of Baffes-cours. We
ordinarily practices accommodation for officers
Others Domeftiques deftiné à la Cuifine Se at the Office.
We can also place the apartment of the Concierge, which
of a businessman.

If the space that will be between the Corps de Logis Se
the Cuifines Building, is closed by a wall
of ordinary height, it will make it easy to practice against this
wall, a covered patch for fervice: fi ce elpace eft
closed by a wall at support height, we can dig a
slab in the ground up to a thin depth. We
in practice, finally, mad at the Court; To enlighten them, we
laiffe, from diftance to diftance, openings fur lefquel-
we place grids of which the empty ones have only about
two inches square,

CHAPTER III.

From the Serre de l'Orangerie, <jr de V Appartement des Bains,

LA Serre de l'Orangerie, can be placed from Symme-
sorts with the Bâtiment des Cuilines in the polirions
which we just talked about; provided, however, that these
openings to afpecl; of the South, which is the most
clean.

Many chofes do to observe in fa confru & ion: it
you have to provide a soft air, & make sure that neither the jelly
neither moisture can penetrate it. The openings in ^
can be large, so that when you open the Croifées,
the Sun appears, it can more easily communicate there
fez rays: it is necessary to place double chaflis, & colerdu
paper on both sides of the one that will be placed inside.

So that humidity does not reign there, the soil is raised
the Greenhouse about two feet above the level of the Jar-
din, & instead of steps to climb, we drelTe
Slope along the width of the doors. As during the Hyver
the earth is always soaked with water, and let it exhale
continual humidity, it would be fitting to make fur all
the furre de la Serre, an excavation of about four to
five feet deep; & after beating the bottom,
• to consolidate it, to build on the width of the Greenhouse
of the walls of a foot Half a half of thickness, far away one of
the other about four to five feet.

Then between these walls, we will do, with small pebbles
8c of lime mortar Se of fable, a shoulder area of
eight to nine inches; we will plaster this area with mor-r
third that it will have to be repopulated to the extent that it will be angry; we are £

6 The Art of Building Country Houses,
from vault to wall, vaults; which will form
canals which will lead to the two sides of the Greenhouse:
trusting these faces, we will observe to make at the end of each
channel, an opening which will give entry to the air: as these
small arches, we will still make an area where we can
vera. It is obvious that by this means this place will exemt
from any humidity. We can practice the same thing
in all the humid places that we want to make fecs.

If any part of the greenhouse is found leaning against
land, it would be necessary to remove it affez, so that in
building a wall to support them, it is between this wall
That of the Greenhouse, an efpace of approximately fixed feet,
see, under these two walls, a vault on which we would make
a pavement with cement, Sloping down on the side of
so that the water could flow easily. We would
through openings at both ends of this Vault,
in order to pave Fair.

In very cold countries, it will help to provide air
sweet Is equal to the Greenhouses of Orangery, fi Your would
inside, in the middle of their length, Se against the wall op-
pofé with croifs, a small cellar in which
blira an oven, whose mouth will be narrow, Fous hearth
which we will make, with bricks, several shaped channels
a Labyrinth, or a Sauciffon which will only have one
trée Se a fortie, Se that we will cover with one or more
proud cast iron plates, when we start the fire.

From one end of this Labyrinth, we will paf- •
iron a sheet metal pipe through the wall, so that it attracts
the outside air in the channels: this air passing through them all,
will not fail to warm up. At the other end
of the Labyrinth, we will also place a sheet pipe which
will communicate the hot air to another pipe, which crosses
fant all the little vaults we talked about; will place

Chap. III. Baths. 7
in the middle of the width of the greenhouse Se fur any fa
length, Se to which we will do, opposite each pier,
Always give a damn about the area of ​​the greenhouse, the branches of
pipes, which by elbows as seen in those of
stoves, fe will join to other lead pofé pipes
two sides of the greenhouse, fçavoir, at each pier
be the oppofed wall, which will have height to
that the heated air that will get stronger, blunder a few feet
that of trees. This air striking against the roof or the
ceiling, fe will continually join the one who will already
contained in the Greenhouse, Will not celfera not to maintain there
a gentle warmth that cannot harm any damage
trees; instead of the brafiers & stoves doing very-
hurtful to those they veil.

We could by the same means provide a soft air
in all the rooms of a Castle, using the same
pampers the hearth of the Cuifine or Ca- chimney
assembly faucet, placing itself in the walls of the pipes,
whose fortress cracks in these rooms;

Baths,

We usually place the Bains apartment in the
Orangery building. We build it according to the state of
Master, if you want to have all the necessary amenities
these cases, the Sale des Bains is preceded by an
room, where the Domeftique fe holds to be within reach of the
fervice. We can make this big alfez dirty to place
two baths, so that two people have
the pleasure of keeping company.

Next to the Sale is the oven, in which the
Furnace which gives the right degree of heat to
the water which is distributed in the Baths by pipes of
lead.



8 The Art of Bastion of Country Houses,

We add a small room called chaufFoir.
This is where we make the linen we need to be hacked in
the Sale des Bains.

The Chambre des Bains must be next to the Sale; If
this room contains two baths, you have to give it
large enough to have two beds.

You can also build there places in Angloife.

If we wanted to save the costs of the Bâtiment des Bains,
Use it for another use, you can
roit, to take the Bath, to arrange a room close to
cooking, in order to be within reach of heating the water
laundry that we would need.

CHAPTER IV.

Stables & Remifes.

THE Stables must be placed so that the
Masters can easily get there: the former
pofition that suits them, is from the Orient up to
North.

To make a double stable look beautiful, noble, we
about 30 to 40 feet wide
twenty-four to thirty feet in height. We could nevertheless
less in the necefîité, put a double row of Che-
worth in a stable, which would be only twenty-
four feet.

In the City, we give to the Single Stables, thirteen to
fourteen feet wide. In the countryside, we keep them
wide from nineteen feet to twenty-four; so that
the Masters who live live these, have the freedom
to walk around, fans run no danger. We will be able to

give



Chap. IV. Stables and Sheds. 9
give the height of the Floor, or the Arch of the pre-
about fourteen feet, eighteen feet to those
which will be twenty-four feet wide.

The door should be five feet wide; If he
It is advisable to make them weak, iorfque the Stable is long.

At the double stables, we place the Crusaders or ATMs,
delîîis des Râteliers: in fîmpies, we only put
the face of the entrance; Take care to raise them alTez,
so that the Horses can't smash the windows. In
these last stables, we make, at the deflîis du Râtelier,
Crenals that one emerges in times of heat,
to give entry to fresh air. We must be careful not to
not give the stables too much light,
Horses do not bother in any way.

We make special stables for horses
labor; If sick horses are set apart in a
small.

It takes four feet wide for a Horse
Roiïe, Se three pieds Dem half feulement pour un Cheval
of felle.

The manger should be placed three feet high,
fbn epailTeur comprife; If you have to move it away from the wall
about seventy inches. We place the rack, which must be
plumb, eighteen inches above the manger,
Like such a distance from the wall. The space that fe finds in-
be the Feeder Se le Râtelier fe lined with boards; of
so that the manger does not receive the powder that
the rack hangs down through the bottom openings. .

Poles, including Bars which decorate Horses
fucked up, must be four inches square
about four feet four inches tall, from the
paved. We plant these posts at nine feet fixed inches from
the manger, not including their epailTeur. The Bars do
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eight feet four inches in length. You have to raise
the area of ​​the Place des Chevaux by a few inches at
defiance of the Taire de la Ecurie refte,
you on the side of the Posts, so that the urine of the Horses
puifTe to flow. When we don't vault the Stables, we
must cap them.

They are accompanied by a saddlery, the size of which
depends on the faculties of the Master. Afpeél du Midi, nor this-
sunset, it is not its own: it is better ex-
between the Levant Se le Midi, or between the Levant Se le
North. If we make crazy my floor of small vaults
femblables to those which one confèvre to make with the Orange-
dregs, it would make it much more succulent.

We are not talking about suitable conveniences;
at the stables; no one ignores them.

Remijes.


The Remiles must have the same afpecl: as the Ecu-
laughs. They are given nineteen to twenty feet deep:
fourteen are sufficient, provided that the drawbar is raised.

The entry of a Remife for a late CarolTe, must be
eight feet wide: it is given fourteen, when
she has two CarolTes. So that they can enter aif- <
ment, it needs nine feet in height.

We practice, in the desremifes building body, a
suitable for shoeing the Harnois; So that he doesn't
wet point, we can execute what we said about it
of Saddlery 3 & give it the same expolition.



CHAP. V. DES GRENIERS, & C.



CHAPTER V.

Granaries dejlinées to put the Grains, & of the Kennel,

The Es Lucarnes des Greniers ask for aipecl: from
North. Avoid placing the granaries over the
Stables Se fur les Etables, which are sure to
give them warmth that would become perceptible to them
nicieufe.

The Bleds fe better keep the covers of
straw, that crazy those of arardoifes or tiles.

When we have to put them crazy, we
can make a Floor, by placing joists on the
Farm Features: we will extend an area on this floor
llx inches of spreader, composed of a mortar
gille Se of straw. A cloifon on the side of the Sun 9 garnished
of the same mortar, would still be very useful, to counter,
so that the floor, part of the heat that fe
always relentent a lot in the Attics.

We also make building bodies designed for
Attics: several floors are built there
tre, to each of whom we practice traps, to make
flow the bleds from one Attic to another, when we judge it
by the way: we choose for that the days in which it reigns
a fresh breeze, If we open the croissants, so that this
wind refreshes the bleds s Removes the dustbin.

To keep bleds for a long time, you have to vault the
heated floor of these Buildings; As we said at
fujet of the Orangery, raise crazy founces of small vaults;
which will heat the humidity ”

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We do not pierce any crusts in these forts of Greniers J
we practice groaning openings in the vault,
by which we blur the wheat of this one which is-
beyond in whoever is beyond. When the vaulted attic
is full, we pour quicklime on the grain., & we
hermetically close these openings, it fe
a very hard crust around the wheat which is very fertile
to confervation.


It is good to divide attics with vaulted walls}
of refend, To make several of them; in order to
see one, unless the others receive air.

From the Kennel.

We will only speak here of the Kennels of the Maifons of Cam-
loincloth of individuals, which are the subject of this
work, If we say in a few words} that we must hold the
Kennel far from the Logis Corps, so that there is no liver
not bothered by the noise of dogs, nor blefîe of the bad ^
vaife smell they produce. It has to be paved on a slope,
so that by an island practiced through the wall, the
Dogs urine flows in a sewer. We make a
balfin, when it is polfible to bring water there; finon,
a well is drilled there, by means of which one can wash
this place conveniently.

The Kennel must be expelled to the North, 8c there must be
a particular courtyard, so that the dogs puilfy there
vuider: it must be surrounded by trees, which guarantee them
the heat of the Sun, If it should not be paved, so that they
find quackgrass there to eat.

You can join a small fireplace room, for
there to make the foupe of the Dogs, Se another where will sleep the
Piqueur, or the Jack of the Dog. There must have been a



Chap. VI. de la Glacière, Sec. 13
particular place, fervent to contain the Lices in heat
with the Dogs from which we want to breed, Another place
for those who are nursing.

The other vessels necessary for the Maifons of Cam-
loincloth, usually place it in a back slap-
court. As their ulàges get twisted in which they must
can be arranged, • make known to all who make
worth their lands, it would be useless to detail them here.


CHAPTER VI.

Icebox 3 & ways to keep Ice

<£ r Snow.

THE Coolers must be placed in a high place;
thereby the bottom is further from the waters;
those of thunderstorms which flow in abundance, will not be able
enter it, if those that fall around it flow
will go with more ease; which is very important, then-
that it is the waters that ordinarily melt the
Ice.

The larger the Icebox gets, the more it is
pre to keep the Ice. To build it, we make a
cone-shaped hole, about eighteen to twenty feet
diameter from the top, three t to four toifes of pro-
founder, glowing as the underground water is distant;
because you have to be careful not to bake until the oven
these; If the water level of the wells, must determine the
depth of the Iceboxes, the bottom of which must be at
ques feet above the greatest height of the waters.

The earth being thus excavated, we will make in the bottom a
well five feet in diameter? Se of four deep



14 The Art of Bastion of Country Houses,
deur, in which we will raise four pillars of Mason-
laugh, which we will close in an arcade, and as we
will blaze the coating of the Icebox, observing laiiTer
a three inch retreat to place a Rouët of
frame. We sometimes vault the Iceboxes, which
gives them more freshness. When the earth is aflez
crazy to make fun of yourself, you can save
the expense of coating them with masonry, be content
for that of frame, which one slats; but in this
last way it happens fouvent that storm water
endlessly through the holes made by the Moles, to
look for freshness, What the great heat makes there
melt the Ice, introducing itself through the slits it
caufe to the earth.

On the hole of the Icebox> we raise in the shape of a cone,
a roof which carries fur fon coating, which one covers
of straw from the two-foot striker. To achieve this,
there is a small gallery of eight on the north side
feet Half a half in length, two feet Half a half
geur, which is closed with two doors placed at both
ends, What must be adjusted so that this Scab-
rie receives no days.

How to put the Ice in the Coolers.

It is necessary, as far as it is possible, to choose a
cold day Se very-fec. We first cover with a straw
Whole feigle Unbroken the frame wheel which
is at the bottom of the Glacière: we hay to put on the same
me straw the walls of the cone, with melure that it fills, Se
to have coffee Crush the Ice by lying it bed by bed, so
to compress the parts better. So that it does not link any
seen y we throw from time to time of the water deflus, which



CHAP. VI. HOW TO PUT THE ICE, & C iy

by freezing, brings together the different baked pieces
forms a disease, which confers much better than
ice cubes that we would have put one after the other fans pre-
bail.

Although the practice that has just been violated, should be
However, there is a defect there, which it is good to
mark here, which configates, in that the straw placed
fur le Rouet Se contre les Parois, fe pourriffant, product
<a salt that does not fail to melt the ice, so
it would be much better to remove this straw,
put the fur on the spinning wheel of the fagot strands.

When the Icebox is full, we cover the ice with
whole rye straw, in which we put plan-
ches that we load with grolîes stones.

The ice thus adjusted, becoming a very mad body, it
when you want to have it, you must fervent with coaches; But
fled it is necessary to clean it exactly of all
the little pieces that will make it flow, because they fe
melt sooner they make stale, damage the
ice cream.

When we can't have ice, we fe snow,
you have to make them into balls, which we beat in the Icehouse
the more it is poffible 9 by arresting them from time to time
with a little water.

It is only before the Sun rises, or that few
soon after it appeared that the Icehouses should be opened;
being careful when entering it, to close the first door
te de la petite Galerie, before opening the fruitful,
To close by fortifying, the door that is inside, before
than open the one outside, lest the air
outside penetrates it.



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CHAPTER VII


Of the form of the Plan of the main Corps de Logis, & that
we must observe to place the Croifées.

We spoke above about the Se pofition of Texpo / îtion
of the main body of Logis des Maifons de Campa-
gene; it is a question here of explaining oneself in the form of Your Plan.

The Plan of the main body of Logis, must have a
pleasant shape: elegance depends on it
the beauty of the facades.

The width of the Pavilions or fore-body must be pro-
portioned to the length & height of the facades.

Those on the front of the Garden must have very few fail-
lie. When you have to give them a lot, it
it has to be done with shapes, so we can see it in
part of the projects that make up this Book.

The Middle Pavilion should, as much as it can, do
mine in width Se bankrupt as those of the ends; Se
the parts which make between these Pavilions, must have
each plus 3 where at least as long as that
middle. When the facades have no extension
to allow it, it is necessary to give "forms to the avant-
body, to be able to shrink their faces by sections
cut or otherwise, make them clock with
parts that reunite them, so that we give several
examples.

The facade of the courtyard is more elegant, more open,
when it is treated in the manner just described
Crite for that on the side of the Gardens. We can however
deviate from this rule, when one is forced to increase

the 
the houses, or that we want to place Cuifines &
Uffizi in the wings.

You can pierce the Pavilion with one or three cracks
from the middle of a facade: you never give it two;
this would offend the good fens 3 which can only supply the
middle of a facade must be marked by a trumeau, & which
instead wants it to be through a door or a cross
fairy, who fe dinguish others by the width, fa shape &
for decoration. When the width of the Pavilion does not allow
not to place three crusaders in front, What they do
nevertheless necessary, to illuminate the room it contains,
we must give this Pavilion forms such as we see
see here in several distributions.

We pierce indifferently with one, two, or three
crusts, Pavilions or Forebodies of the ends;
but it must be observed that the width of the indentation lur-
that of a croifée; what is essential for solidity
of the building.

Finally, the croifées must keep a perfect
asymmetry in each part of the facades.

Avoid forms of Building, which could
cause difficulties for the conftruélion of Com-
wheat; & we have to study this last part
tie, before stopping the plan, for fear of being forced
to resort to expedients who make expensive fouvent, Se
which sometimes produce an unpleasant glance.

The same attention must be paid to the returns of Cor-
niches.



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