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Art in France (1911)

Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 63

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ffs enframed individual existences,united by the diffusion of a common religion. The antique culturewhich had come by the great Roman road that extends from Frejus toBordeaux had spread northward through Burgundy, Auvergne andPoitou. The highways of communication between the langue docand the… … FiG. 84. -CRYPT OF THE CHLRCH OFSAINT-DENIS. had none of those geographical frontiers by which the particularistspirit is fostered. A personahty rose above the feudal federation; a France was evolved to which theother provinces gradually attachedthemselves; Gothic art, born ofthis society,…

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