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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 58

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^ preserved the two Westerntowers . . . and they did not wish to lose the threebeautiful portals which gave access to the nave. . . .These doors with the fine statues, the tympana, vault-ings, and windows which surmount them, replaced on … porches were added to the . . . ENTRANCES OF THE TRANSEPTS. — CHARTRES. a line with the two towers, were crowned by a roseopening beneath the vault of the central nave. The re-construction . . . was conducted with in-credible rapidity, nowhere was the eagerness of thepeople, the nobility, and the…

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