Capitolo 47
lost. We have anybody alternative but to advance down in next century to
once, and in the full and perfect Gothic of the great age when the
New rentals were building.
Of year 1203, Phillip Augustus expelled the English by Normandy
and it conquered the province; but, during the war the Duke
of Brittany that was naturally a party to any war that has taken place
under his/her eyes, happened to burn the city under of the abbey and in
doing so, fire of set unintentionally in the same abbey. The
sacrilege shocked Phillip Augustus and the wish to reconcile this way
powerful a vassal as Saint Michel or his/her abbot, conducted the King of
France to give a great sum of money to mend the buildings. The
The abbot Jordan (1191-1212) immediately undertaken to surpass his
predecessors, and, with an immense ambition, it planned the enormous pole
what it covers the whole face of north of the Mountain, and what it always has
borne the expressive name of the Merveille.
The general motive for abbatial building was common to all of them.
Abbeys were the great families. The church was the centre, and to
Mont-Saint-Michel the top, for the situation the abbots forced
there to stack one building on another instead of systematizing them on a
you level in plazas or parallelograms. The dormitory in some case had to
a door of the church is near, because the Rule required continuous
services, day and night. The cloister was also hard-from the church
door, and, to the Mountain, it had to be on the same level to be
in open air. Naturally the refectory immediately has to be under of one
or the other of these two principal structures and the room, or
place to meet himself/herself/themselves for business with the world of out, or for
inside administration, or for guests of the importance, it has to be next
the refectory. The kitchen and offices would have put on the lowest
you stage, if for any other reason, because the periodicals were two
one hundred feet under to the unloading-place and all the provisionings, included
you sprinkle, it had to be taut on a plain airplane tilted by winches. To