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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France : including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 166

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THIS RETABLE IS A LOVELY BIT OF GOTHIC CHIS-ELLING. SENS. Archbishop, desiring to perpetuate the humiliation ofhis adversary, ordered that the head of de Cugnieresshould be carved on one of the pillars of the Cathedral.The people, delighting in this mask, mockingly called … THE TRANSEPTS, CONSTRUCTED ALMOST FOUR IIUNnRED YEARS LATERTHAN THE BODY OF THE CHURCH, PRESENT THE CREATEST CONTRASTTO THE RETIRING SOBRIETY OF THE EARLIER FORMS. SENS. 135 Sens 137 it Jean de Coignot, and not content with the derisionof the populace, the Canons marched before it andsolemnly went…

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