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GOTHIC CONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE
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forms which presented great disparity between the spans of the pier archivolts and those of the wall arches. The intersection of a cone (which was necessarily the form of the transverse vault) with a barrel vault on a segmental plan
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gave groins whose plans were wavy lines, and which were so salient in parts as to possess little strength. Many unsightly results were produced in the efforts of the Romanesque builders to construct such vaults at once securely and conveniently. [1] To illustrate these experiments would require more space than it is worth while to give to them in this connection. It is enough here to say that the
- ↑ See Viollet-le-Duc, s.v. Voute, p. 489, et seq.
