The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 241
MARSEILLES. universal occurrence in the churches of the South, as hasbeen already noticed, and we shall meet with otherinstances. This peculiar characteristic probably dates fromthe time of the crusades against the Albigenses in the 2l6 MEDLEVAL PERIOD. twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the… … FIG. 92. MONUMENT IN ST VICTORS, MARSEILLES. The frequent attacks of the Saracens may also havehad some influence in producing this style of exterior inthe churches near the sea-coast. AIX-EN-PROVENCE. 217 Aix-ex-Provence, which is easily reached fromMarseilles by a delightful railway route through…
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