"Cathedral Cities of France" by R. W. S. Herbert Marshall, Hester Marshall. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Hester Marshall. Cathedral Cities of France
Cathedral Cities of France
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
A FRENCH CATHEDRAL CITY
BOULOGNE TO AMIENS
LÂON, RHEIMS AND SOISSONS
ROUEN
EVREUX AND LISIEUX
BAYEUX
SAINT-LÔ AND COUTANCES
LE MANS
ANGERS
TOURS AND BLOIS
CHARTRES
ORLÉANS, BOURGES, AND NEVERS
MOULINS, LIMOGES, AND PÉRIGUEUX
ANGOULÊME AND POITIERS
LA ROCHELLE AND BORDEAUX
SENS, AUXERRE, AND TROYES
MEAUX, SENLIS, AND BEAUVAIS
PARIS AND SOME OF ITS CHURCHES
Index
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R. W. S. Herbert Marshall, Hester Marshall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The two western towers look little more than heavily built buttresses, and as towers are not very appropriate in design, being not square, but oblong in plan. They rise little above the ridge line of the nave, whose crossing with the transepts is marked by a beautiful flèche, which Ruskin, however, describes as “merely the caprice of a village carpenter.” As he further declares, the Cathedral of Amiens is “in dignity inferior to Chartres, in sublimity to Beauvais, in decorative splendour to Rheims, and in loveliness of figure sculpture to Bourges,” yet it fully deserves the name given to it by Viollet-le-Duc—“The Parthenon of Gothic architecture.”
