Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 404
cts, and Viollet-le-Ducwrites, this charming edifice is executed with specialcare, and in none of its parts are those neghgencesdiscovered which are so frequent in our great NorthernCathedrals. With the exception of Reims, no interiorWestern wall is sorichly effective.It is almost trans-parent,… … a graceful little door of a later EPOCH. —tours. aisles are conven-tionally well-formed; but the high, narrow nave, with the whitenessof its stone, has the pure and stately loftiness which isthe sublime peculiarity of the French Gothic. Hand-some red and blue glass in the clerestory and the…
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