The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 370
Vendome, Yilleneuve-le-Roi,^loulins, Moret (Fig. 271), Provins (Fig. 272), also afford cliaracteristicremains of ancient military arcliitecture. While the nobles, jealous and suspicious, sheltered themselves in theshadow of donjons built with many strategical contrivances and of sub-stantial… … Fig. 271.—Gate of Moret. (Twelfth Century.) and brick but seldom, figured among the materials employed. Sawed orsquared timbers serving as ribs, mud or clay filling up the interstices, wereall that was at first required for the erection of houses as small as theywere comfortless, and following each…
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