Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams

Capitolo 17

they separately lives pleasantly, together of the five hundred years. The
Gothic it died gracefully in France. The choir is charming,--far more
enchanting that the vase, as you/he/she is enchanting more the beautiful woman that
the elderly man. One don't have need to quarrel on styles of the beauty, as
long as the man and woman evidently it is satisfied and love and
you still admire each other, with the whole solidity of the faith to hold them
on;  but, at least, one cannot help sight, as one bewares of the
more old man to the youngest style how whatever the woman is sixteenth-
charm of century can be, it is not the line of the face of eleventh-century of the man of
naivete;--far from him! The simple one, the serious dignity, silent and
energy of the eleventh century has gone. Anything more complicated
stands in their place;  graced, embarrassed, rhetorical, and
beautiful as perfect rhetoric, with his/her clarity, light and line,
and the wealth of carving that tilts on the florid one.

The crypt of the same period, under of, it is well still, and
also in stands of seriousness on audaciously from the side of the romantic one;
but we don't have anybody duration to meet himself/herself/themselves street with the sixteenth century:  we have
still to learn the alphabet of art in France. One has to live deep
in the eleventh century to understand the twelfth one, and
after momentary years in the twelfth one we will also find, the
thirteenth in many ways a world of his really, with a beauty not always
inherited, and it didn't sometimes transmit. To the Mountain we can go anybody
more distant in the eleventh as far as architecture of worries. We am able
has to follow the romantic one to Caen and so on the Seine to the Ile
de France, and I cross to the Loire and the Rhone, far to the South
where his/her disposition of house. The whole other job of eleventh-century has been
destroyed here or he/she built on, omits all of a sudden, on the level of
the splendid crypt that we have turned as soon as from, he/she called the Gros Piliers,
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