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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 466

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o a similar range ofapartments above. Each apartment has its dressing-room or ward-robe, and its private means of exit and entrance. Observe also thatthe staircase halls on the lower floor serve as vestibules for the greatsaloon as well as for the two principal apartments. Certainly, whenwe… … if we examine the élévation (Fig. 7S), we shall see an example of acharming manor-house, whose exterior perfectiy indicates the arrange-ments of the interior. It was the custom then, as in classic timesand in the ^liddle Ages, to give to each of the main divisions of thehouse its distinct roof;…

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