The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 276
outer wall, while the wall isabout thirty feet above the soil outside. The towers arebuilt with an open side next the lices, so that, even iftaken by the enemy, they could not be held by himagainst the inner walls. St Louis also erected an im-mense barbican, or round redoubt, at the base of the…
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