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DEFINITION OF GOTHIC
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I have said that this architecture in all its distinctive characteristics is native to France and to France only. I shall endeavour in the following chapters to illustrate this fact by a detailed examination and comparison of the pointed architectures of the different countries of Europe, first as regards their constructive, and afterwards as regards their decorative systems.

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