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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 166

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on ; and a few remains ofRoman structures and columns are still to be seen. Butthe most interesting edifice in the town is the ancientcathedral of the tw^elfth century. As this is the firstbuilding we have met with which is characteristicallyProvencal in style, so it is also one which preserves ina… … FIG. 46. ST IAUL-TKOis-CHATEAUX. Part Of E.xtcrior (froiH RevoH). tion in the Provencal architecture of the twelfth centuryof that of the Roman structures which no doubt then existedon the spot. The pilasters, crowned with their completeentablature of architrave, frieze, and cornice, and filledin…

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