How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries


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How France Built Her Cathedrals


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Excerpt from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries was written by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly. This is a 680 page book, containing 245659 words and 47 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. 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.










How France Built Her Cathedrals


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"[...]them. “The time of big theories is the time of big results.” It is we, in the person of the Scholastics who built Paris Cathedral, and Laon, the intellectual,—churches disciplined, sober and strong. It is we the multitudinous scholars of the Middle Ages who built Chartres, the wise mystic, and opalescent Auxerre, and Châlons on the Marne of Victory. And lest the hungry generations tread us down, we inscribed our loved subtleties on their walls, and at their portals[...]".