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GOTHIC CONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE
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beauty and the degree of Gothic expression that were reached in this interesting monument.
FIG. 18.
It will be seen that the architect not only intended from the first to vault this choir, but that he perfectly understood what the form and construction of the vaulting was to be; that he had, in fact, settled in advance his scheme for the vaulting in every detail, so that his ground-plan was laid out, and the sections of his piers were determined by its
