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Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 282

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isgreat architectural work should have been begun so near theclose of the citys prosperity, and that in spite of severalefforts it has never been half completed. It is as if a fatalityhung over the whole place, and as if all the greatness Nar-bonne had conceived was predestined to destruction or… … the door of tue cloister. -NARBONNE. of the XII century was built in our day by Viollct-le-Duc,very little of the old Palace can properly be said to exist.Besides its two ])nncipal towers, a smalk^r one, a ,qatc, anda chapel remain. Xiolkl K Due has construckd the Hotel- 256 Languedoc. de-Ville…

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