Capitolo 16
Lombardy, but it was slightly different expression as you desire
sees when you travel south. Here to Mont-Saint-Michel we only have a
I truncate cripple of a church of eleventh-century to judge from. We have
not also a façade, and it will have to stop to of the Norman village--to
Thaon or Ouistreham--to find a forehead of the west that the abbey would go well
here, but wherever we find him/it to us we will find a little anymore anything a
serious, more soldier, and more practical than You he/she will meet in
other romantic job, more distant the south. Also, therefore the central tower or
lantern--the most impressive characteristic in Norman churches--you/he/she is fallen
here to Mont-Saint-Michel, and we will have to replace him/it from
Cerisy-she-Foret, and Lessay and Falaise. We will find a lot for saying
on the value of the lantern on a Norman church and the unusual one
you motorize it expresses. Us he/she anchors we will have more to say some towers
what side the forehead of the west of Norman churches, but these are above all
twelfth-century, and it will conduct us well over Coutances and Bayeux,
from fleche to fleche, you cultivate us we come to the fleche of every fleches, to
Rentals.
We will have a whole chapter of study, also on the eleventh-
apse of century, but here to Mont-Saint-Michel, the choir of Abbot Hildebert
the way of his/her vase and tower gone. He built out even more audaciously to
the east that to the west, and even if the choir was standing for some
four hundred years for which I/you/they am more an enough life
architecture, the foundations finally gave way, and it fell in 1421,
in the mean of the wars English, and a downfall remained up to 1450.
Then you/he/she was reconstructed, a monument of the last days of the Gothic one, this way
what time, witnessing the western door, you can look down at the
church, and he/she sees the two limits of architecture of mediaeval him gotten married
together,--the first Norman and last French. Through the
Romantic arcs of 1058, you look in the exuberant choir of
later Gothic, ended in 1521. Even if the two structures are