Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams

Capitolo 53

better in duration. One finds to feel that these things were due partly
to an instinct that is probable that the architect himself would not have been able
to explain. The instinct fades away as creeping of time on. The rooms to
Rouen or to Blois you/he/she is understood more easily;  the Salle des
Pierre's Lescot Caryatides to the Skylight, enchanting as it is, it is
simpler anchor;  and one feels completely to house in the Salle des
Glaces that filled the ambition of Luigi XIV to Versailles.

If some long rests of doubt in respect to the professional one
the ability of the architect and the completeness of his/her study, us
it had the better return to the great room, and it passes through a low door in
his/her external and extreme angle, on some footsteps in a small room some
thirteen feet square, at times illuminated beautifully, it heated from a
great hearth of stone, and in the angle, an additional line spacing of spiral staircase
above in another room squared above of opening directly in the cloister.
It is a small library or rent-house. Almost The setup is
too much intelligent for the gravity, as it is the case with more than one
setup in the Merveille. From the of out that can see to
this angle the architect had to offer a heavy buttress against a
double effort, and he built above from the stone under a square angle
you tower as I support in which he worked an additional line spacing of spiral staircase
from the wine cellar above in the cloisters. Only on the level of the
great room he handled to build this small room a gem. The
place was nearby and far;  it was calm and central;  William of Saint-
You couple, you/he/she had still been him alive, you/he/she would have written his "Roman" there;
it is probable that monks would have illuminated there missals. Some footsteps direct upward
brings them to the cloisters for meditation;  some more brought
them in the church for prayer. Some footsteps descending it brought them to
the great room, for business some footsteps more conducted them in the
refectory, for supper. To contemplate the goodness of God was a
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