Contents
Illustrations
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I What Is Gothic Architecture? [3]
CHAPTER II Abbot Suger and St. Denis-en-France
CHAPTER III Some of the Primary Gothic Cathedrals: Noyon, Senlis, Sens, Laon, Soissons
CHAPTER IV Notre Dame of Paris and Other Churches of the Capital [71]
CHAPTER V Era of the Great Cathedrals, Chartres, Rheims, Amiens
CHAPTER VI Six of the Lesser Great Cathedrals: Bourges, Beauvais, Troyes, Tours, Lyons, Le Mans
CHAPTER VII Plantagenet Gothic Architecture [174]
CHAPTER VIII Gothic in the Midi
CHAPTER IX The Gothic Art of Burgundy [267]
CHAPTER X Gothic Art in Normandy [314]
Index
Bibliography
How France Built Her Cathedrals
Soissons Cathedral. The Transept’s Southern Arm (c. 1180)
Soissons Cathedral.
The Transept’s Southern Arm (c. 1180)
How France Built
Her Cathedrals
A Study in the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Centuries
By
ELIZABETH BOYLE O’REILLY
Honorary Member of the SociÉtÉ FranÇaise d’ArchÉologie
Author of “Heroic Spain” Etc.
Illustrated With Drawings By
A. PAUL DE LESLIE
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HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
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How France Built Her Cathedrals
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Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers
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