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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 388

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esents Hell in the form of a cauldron. It is related that an Archbishop of Bourges wasdoing the honours of his Cathedral to a Cardinal whenthe latter, stopping before the representation of Hell,saw a mitred head among the lost. Monseigneur, he cried, turning to the Archbishop,it appears that there… … THE CATHEDRAL S COMPARATIVELY LOW TRIFORIUM AND CLERESTORYDEFECTS OF ITS MAGNIFICENT PROPORTIONS.—BOURGES. 23 353 Bourges 355 been contemplated and planned in 1172, were not begununtil 1190 or 1195, and twenty-five years had barelyelapsed and the workmen had scarcely arrived at thevaulting of the…

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