F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1998/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1998)

MŰHELY - Igaz Rita: Francia interieurművészet a 18. század közepén. Jaques-Françis Blondel elméletben és gyakorlatban

manifest in the smallest details of their palaces which is called „rocaille". This would be followed all over Europe using Italian models till then, until the time of the return to Antique traditions in the second half of the century. The ruling building types are city palaces and country mansions, the so called „maison de plaisance"-s, which are mutually influencing each other from the points of interiour spaces and decorations. These buildings are already of human size, usually with a compact plan, among their main facade walls with several rows of rooms, divided separation walls, rooms suitable for life spent in intim familiar circles with a vivid and joyful decoration and furnishings serving comfort and using new inventions adequate to the rank of the owners. In these buildings - on which the castle of Issy built in 1681 by Pierre Bullet had a decisive influence concerning to their interiours - beside rooms serving representation and private life the so called „appartament de societé"-s, rooms for social life with selected participants were also built. In this period extremely rich and intersting from the point of French architecture was active that Jacques-Francois Blondel, who had influenced his contemporaries beside his few remained buildings mainly with his theoretical and architecture-pedagogical work. His whole activity had served the preservation of French classical traditions in an age, when too much interest was centred on points guided by orderers' taste and comfort. His most important principles written in his works (De la Distribution des maisons de plaisance et la decoration des édifices en général, Architecture francoise, Cours d'architeture) could be compared very fortunately to the practical examples by the investigation of the small palace built between 1750 and 1752 in Normandy in the village of Vendreuve at the order of Alexandre Le Forestier d'Osseville. The building is still in family posession in its original condition, has remained to us with its original furnishings and thanks to the generousity of the family is open to the public.