1. For example Verneuil and Charleval.

2. For the 1582 contracts for the building of the western half of the cour carrée , which name Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau as the architect instructed to follow Pierre Lescot's plans for the ensemble, see chapter III, part 2, of my forthcoming book on the du Cerceau.

3. See Tony Sauvel's lecture of 19 October 1966, in Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France .

4. The fullest study of the building of the Pont-Neuf is François Boucher: Le Pont-Neuf , 2 vols, Paris 1925-1926.

5. On the Tuileries see Anthony Blunt: Philibert de l'Orme , London 1958. Tony Sauvel, 'Recherches sur les ressources dont Catherine de Médicis a disposé pour construire les Tuileries,' in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art française, 1967. Denis André Chevallay: Der grosse Tuilerienentwurf in der Überlieferung Du Cerceaus (Kieler Kunsthistorische Studien, Band 3), 1973, and Liliane Châtelet-Lange: 'La "forma ovale si come costumarono li antichi romani": salles et cours ovales en France au seizième siècle,' in Architecture, 1976, pp. 128-147, especially pp. 139-144.

6. See my forthcoming study on the du Cerceau, chapter IV, part 2, and also the larger projects published in the Livre d'Architecture of 1559 and 1582.

7. For a census of recent literature see Anne-Marie Lecoq, 'La città festeggiante. Les fêtes publiques aux XV ^e et XVI ^e siècles,' in Revue de l'Art, 33, 1976, pp. 83-100. Studies on the most important late Valois festivals held in Paris are The Entry of Henri II into Paris, 16 June 1549 , Facsimile with an introduction by I. D. McFarlane, (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, vol. 7), Binghamton, New York 1982. Victor E. Graham and William McAllister Johnson, The Paris Entries of Charles IX and Elisabeth of Austria, 1571 , Toronto 1974. Le Balet Comique by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx, 1581 , Facsimile and an introduction by Margaret M. McGowan (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, vol. 6), Binghamton, New York 1982.

8. D. A. Chevallay, op. cit. above note 5. For the argument against the oval halls having been intended to house baths and a grotto see Liliane Châtelet-Lange, art. cit. above note 5, p. 142, note 55.

9. See my forthcoming study on the du Cerceau, chapter III, part 2.

10. On de l'Orme's 'sixth order' and for designs by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architects for a 'French order' see J.-M. Pérouse de Monclos, 'Le Sixième Ordre d'Architecture, ou la Pratique des Ordres suivant les Nations,' in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. XXXVI, 1977, pp. 223-240.

11. See my forthcoming study on the du Cerceau, chapter III, part 2. break

12. See Adolphe Berty: Topographie du Vieux Paris. Région du Louvre et des Tuileries, I, Paris 1885, p. 258-264.

13. See also Tony Sauvel, art. cit. above note 3.

14. A second edition was published in 1568.

15. An outline of de l'Orme and Bullant's years in Rome is given by Volker Hoffmann: Artisti francesi a Roma: Philibert de l'Orme e Jean Bullant, in Colloqui del Sodalizio, (Seconda serie), 4, 1973-1974, pp. 55-68.

16. See the full account by Jean-Pierre Babelon, 'Les Travaux de Henri IV au Louvre et aux Tuileries,' in Paris et Ile-de-France. Mémoires publiés par la Féderation des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France, Tome 25, 1978, pp. 55-130.

17. See François-Charles James, 'Jean Bullant. Recherches sur l'architecture française du XVI ^e siècle,' in Ecole Nationale des Chartes. Positions des thèses. 1968, pp. 101-109, and Françoise Boudon, André Chastel, Hélène Couzy and Françoise Hamon, ' Système de l'Architecture urbaine. Le Quartier des Halles à Paris, ' Paris 1977, chapter IV on aristocratic architecture and the development of the parish of Saint Eustache.

18. See F-C. James, art. cit. above note 17, p. 108.

19. For the plan attached to the 1582 contract see Boudon, Chastel, Couzy and Hamon, op. cit. above, note 17, p. 232, fig. 308.

20. See E. Bonnaffé, Inventaire des meubles de Catherine de Médicis en 1589, Paris 1874.

21. See Frances Yates: The Valois Tapestries, London 1959, p. 122.

22. 'un cabinet apelé des miroirs' containing 'cent dix neuf miroirs plains de Venize enchasséz dans le lambris dudict cabinet'. For the history of the use of mirror glass in decoration in France see Henry Havard: Dictionnaire de l'Ameublement et la Décoration, Paris, n.d., vol. II, cols 1100-1116.

23. For archive references to the building contracts relating to the Hôtel de la Reine see Boudon, Chastel, Couzy and Hamon, op. cit., p. 195, and for the seventeenth-century building campaigns see Rosalys Coope: Salomon de Brosse, London 1972, pp. 251-252.

24. See Françoise Boudon: 'Urbanisme et speculation à Paris au XVIII ^e siècle, Le Terrain de l'Hôtel de Soissons', in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1973, pp. 267-307.

25. See Jean-Pierre Babelon: 'Nouveaux Documents sur la Place Dauphine et ses abords', in Commission du Vieux Paris. Procès-verbaux, 1966, pp. 32-44, especially p. 33. This article gives a full bibliography.