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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 62

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held the bells, theymultiplied the forms and the religious carvings ofthe portals, and they sometimes increased the numberof the aisles and added many chapels. It is during The Cathedral 31 the course of the XIII century, writes Viollet-le-Due,that the apsidal chapels receive all their… … THEY ADDED TOWERS THAT POINTED HEAVENWARD AND HELD THEBELLS. LAON. and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, commences toassume an importance which grows during the XVcentury, until it soon becomes a small church an-nexed to the apse of the larger one, as in the Cathe-dral of Rouen, and, later, in…

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