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The story of a house (1874)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 84

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this other cellar, which belongs to the oldestpart of the chateau, and is built with excellent stone. Thebuilder did not wish to lose any space on the interior, and,building with hewn stone, wras anxious not to waste the PAULS COURSE OF PRACTICAL CONSTRUCTION. 65 material. What did he do? (Fig.… … ,!.»» • Fio. 10. twenty-five centimetres, and on these arches, which replacethe surplus of thickness, or lining-wall, of which I spoke justnow, he keyed in his vault. This drawing in perspectivewill enable us to seize this system of building. Thus theupper wall leaves the vault independent, and…

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