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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 280

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, and harmonious; andthis result has been obtained with such disdain offrivolous or meretricious device, with such sweet andreasonable uses of architectural resources, that it iseasier to enjoy, to admire, than to analyse technically. There are seemingly no useless barriers, no opaquewalls, no… … THE PRETTY LITTLE STAIRWAY AND THE SHALLOW CHAPELS OF THECHOIR. —TROYES. VOL. II. 17 257 Troyes 259 of space and of mellow radiance of light, one sees aforest of big pillars; — the interior is splendid, andfull of suave and majestic nobility. Standing spell-bound in its aisles, a paragraph…

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