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feeble echoes of the mediæval French traditional forms. It is worthy of notice that Lescot's projecting bays have no meaning apart from their aesthetic effect in the external architectural

Fig. 118.—Part of Du Cerceau's print of Lescot's Louvre.

scheme. In the feudal castle the towers had of necessity to stand out beyond the curtain walls in order from their loop- holes and battlements to defend them. But the salient pavilions of the Louvre have no function; they do not even materially enlarge the interior, but are purely ornamental features. The