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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 155

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the hill above the villagestand the ruins of the ancient monastery, now greatlydilapidated, and having the space between the walls chokedup with the steep and irregular streets of a small town. The monastic buildings have almost entirely disappeared,the materials having doubtless served for the… … / ; ! -I II V .■■r.y<7 ( ;/ 1);, ?^-t£^^- CRUAS. 131 tolerably entire. This is the ancient chapel of the abbey,originally a building of the twelfth centur}-, but which inthe fourteenth ceutury was engulphcd by the enclosingwalls and fortifications then erected, and heightened soas to be…

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