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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 78

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tiful is the Renai.^sance portal, which issaid to be the work of .some wandering ma.sons from Stras-bourg. A gateway, charmingly conceived, flanked bythe last tower of the ancient fortified enclosure of the Ca-thedrals southern walls, leads to a flight of steps, and theporch at their top has a… … Albi. 63 to it as it now is to the great walls against which it leans.Yet here, as in the interior, the contrast of the detail andthe general structure is not so startling in fact as in theory.

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