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Excerpt from Cathedrals and Cloisters of Northern France, Vol. 1 of 2 With the present volumes, the history of the French Cathedrals comes to an end. Although many pages have gone to the making of these books, half of the great mediaeval talc could not be told - the tale of faith and love, of self-sacrifice and self-interest, of generosity, ambition, and genius, that led to the erection of the Cathedrals "which remain to the greater glory of God, and to the greater honour of the Catholic Church." If the authors have added, even in a small measure, to the pleasure of the student in France - if they have succeeded in making more vivid the story of the Cathedral-building ages, in making more real the significance of the Cathedral in the lives of the people as well as in the records of Architecture, their work will not have been useless; and if, by writing its history, they have led some appreciative traveller to visit a Laon, a Rodez, or a Treguier, they will be well repaid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."