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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 211

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]iroportion isconceived with eleeance and delicac\. i8o The Early Gothic The facade of the building has the appearance of aone-storied structure, with a plain useful entrance-wav,buttresses with ornamented pinnacles, and five largeand handsome Gothic windows. On the opposite side, the Hall opens… … IN THE DAMP LITTLE CLOSE, A WEEPING WILLOW CASTS ITS SHADE,AND WEEDS AND SHRUBS GROW AS THEY WILL. NOYON. Here the most poetic and melancholy decay nowexists. Because two sides of the walls needed resto-ration, they were destroyed; and the third side, whichescaped this fate, was then propped by…

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