Going through my archives from a European trip I took back in 2009. This 17th century courtyard is located in Dijon, where my cousin lives. He took my friend Allen & I through the streets of Dijon, opening doorways here & there to reveal all kinds of interesting architecture. I didn't make a note of what this structure actually was at the time, but a Google search revealed that it's called the Hotel de Vogue. Here's all I could find about it (translated awkwardly from French by someone): "One of the finest of these houses to be built after the Wars of Religion was one of the first -the Hotel de Vogue in the rue de la Chouette, close to the apse of Notre-Dame. Etienne Bouhier, conseiller de parlement from 1607 to 1635, was certainly the builder and allegedly the designer of this miniature palace. If this was the work of an inspired amateur, it was an amateur inspired by a passion for the minutest details of Renaissance decoration. But it is difficult to believe that the inner face of the entrance screen is the creation of an amateur. The visitor who penetrates the courtyard passes through a triple arched screen which presents towards the house a tour de force of Renaissance architecture. The three arches are contained within a Corinthian order. The central arch, slightly larger than those who flank it, forms the entrance and breaks forward enough to permit the use of free-standing columns ; those to either side are flat pilasters. The frieze and cornice are of an intricacy of design which is only equaled by the precision of its execution. In both the side arches the spandrels are filled with figures of women who act as side-supporters to the monogram of Etienne Bouhier and his two wives - EBMG : Bouhier, Massol and Giroux." Please zoom...