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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 600

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n, Azay-le-Rideau, areexcellent examples of the application of this principle. They owetheir peculiar charms, not to any symmetrical arrangements of theirparts, but to the balance of thèse parts. To obtain this efFect of bal-ance is, I admit, much more dithcult thaii to continue the Unes…

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