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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 37

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ssfound to be struct-urally defective.This arch-line, theonly suggestion ofany lightness ofform, is now sur-rounded, filled, andmade into a j)er-fcctly solid con-struction. Thewhole church isheavily, plainlybuttressed, unorna-mented, and seem-ingly decaying.High above it andstanchly dominatingthe… … the shrine of its patron bishop.— LODEVE. Lavaur. 21 So strong a city was Lavaur that never inXavaur ^^ kingdom was one seen with higher ram- parts nor deeper moats. So thought Almaricde Montreal when in 1211 he advised hissister, the widow of the Lord of Lavaur, to hold out againstthe forces of…

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