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GOTHIC CONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE
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The tracery of Reims, as will be seen in the figure, is made up of many small pieces of stone jointed as in ordinary arch

FIG. 48.

construction; but that of Paris is composed of fewer, and consequently larger pieces,—a method which rendered it