Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 66
ilitarian form and build-ings are real fortifications, with battlemented walls, strongand heavv towers, and small windows, and are providedwith tlie other devices of Romanesque architecture of apurely military type. Time has dealt hardly with them. The kingly power,being intrenched in Paris,… … f 1» w Gascony. 45 the southern towns began to dechne, and the buildingswhich remain to represent most perfectly the Church-Fortress are not those of Provence, which are patchedand restored, but those of Languedoc, Agde, and ^Nlague-lonne, and Elne of the near-by country of Rousillon.
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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