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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 249

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tical and religious upheavals, as well as evolu-tion in architectural taste, in ideas of hygienic building,and in methods of strategic construction, have madegreat changes in the aspect of Laon. Its mediaevalwalls have disappeared or have lost their warlikeappearance, a few gates remain as… … ADORNED BY HEAVY, EARLY GOTHIC PILLARS. LAON. Those buildings of episcopal Laon which still standsuggest strongly, even if imperfectly, the imposing Laon 219 temporal greatness of the mediaeval Church. Withits large, hall-like rooms, the bare and stately Courtbetween it and the Cathedral, and the…

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