Capitolo 59
horizon as if every church in every small village both an architectural
monument. In hundreds of them it is literally so,--monuments Historiques,
-protected by the Government; but when you undertake to compare
them, or to decide if theirs are more good-looking in Normandy that
in the de of Ile France, or in the Burgundy, or on the Loire or the
Charente, you are lost, the superiority of the octagon is not Also
evident to every one. On the small church to Fenioux on the
Charente, not very away from You Rochelle, is a conic bell tower that
it is probable that an atheist adores; and if you have to decide among provinces,
You have to calculate with the decision of architects and amateurs that
you seem to have been of accord that the first one of all it steals it is to Rentals the,
second to Vendome, not away from Blois in Touraine and the third one to
Auxerre in the Burgundy. The towers of Coutances are not in the list,
neither it is that to Bayeux neither that to Caen. France is rich in art.
He/she anchors the towers of Coutances I am in of the ways as interesting, if not
as beautiful, as the best.
The two flecheses of the stone here, with their faces of octagon they don't do
comes down, as in the other churches, to their remain-place on a plaza
you tower, with the plan of more disguised union; they throws
out nests smaller fleches, and these cover sustaining angle
towers, with lines that directly go to the earth. If the
artist the agreements knowingly or not, the effect has to widen the
façade and it lifts him in the air. The same façade separately has a
military glance, as if a fortitude had been altered in a church.
A fascinating arcade to the top has the air to be thrown I cross in
orders to disguise the change, and it owes a lot perhaps of his/her charm
to the contrast ago with the gravity of military lines. Also
the great window of the west seems a reflection; the instinct of one
he/she asks a white wall. Anchor, from the earth above to the cross on the
buds, one feels the Norman nature in everything, while animating the whole one,
uniting him/it all, and crowding himself/herself/itself in him an intelligent variety of