Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 298
of the Bourbons,the Northern wall of Seez has a similar excrescencewhich, happily, is to be destroyed, and Laon possessestwo long series of comparatively unimportant, angular,cell-like additions. The Cathedral of Paris has also its later additions.A half circle of chapels of a far more developed… … 267 Paris 269 the church rise in the unspoiled splendour of theirsombre antiquity. For so massive a Cathedral, the vessel is exceedinglyslender. In its rounded end, it suggests the great apseof Bourges; but is much lighter, much more delicatelyformed, and seems more soaring and more elevated.From…
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