Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 112
er to foun-dation is the barren fagade. This is so unfinished andso mutilated by its ill-contrived repairs that it givesa discouraging impression of inferior and imitative Soissons 89 Gothic. The deep portals are well proportioned; butthey have empty, blank tympana, and, instead ofstatues, thin… … A TANTALISING GLIMPSE. -SOISSONS. the other commonplace stages of the wall; and, in spiteof apologists, the fagade as a whole is bare and ugly.It is from the distant tower of the ruined Abbey ofSaint-Medard, on the site of Abelards prison, highabove the fences and roofs, that the admirable lines…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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