Capitolo 64
couples. Finally, if for any other reason, at least for interest in
Arlette, the daughter of the tanner that one has to go to Falaise, and it looks to
the superb clocher of Saint-Gervais that you/he/she was ended and
consecrate within 1135.
Of the day, if he likes it, we can follow this romantic style to the
south, and on also in Italy where you/he/she can be supposed that has been,
been born; but France fully had a life architectural thousand years
old when these that churches of twelfth-century are been built, and it was long
since then artistically, as she was politically, independent. The Normans
it was new in France but not the romantic architecture; them only
taken the forms and stamped on them their his/her own character. It is the
stamps we want to distinguish for tracing on our lines of
artistic ancestry. The postage stamp of Norman twelfth-century easily was not
cancelled. If we have not seen enough of him to Mont-Saint-Michel,
Coutances, Bayeux and Caen that we can go to Rouen, and it drives out to
Boscherville, and it visits the ruined abbey of Jumieges. Everywhere there
it is a church-tower with a tall fleche, as to Boscherville,
Secqueville, Saint-Pierre-sur-dive, Caen and Bayeux, Viollet-her-
Duc offers notice as the octagonal bell tower you/he/she has been all right above to the plaza
tower. The passage from the octagon to the plaza always seems to be
rather simply it did. The Gothic or romantic buds had the advantage
what a wood fleche was as reasonable a coverage for him as a stone
one, and it is probable that the Normans would have satisfied a lot in the whims of form
easily, if theirs chose, but they never seems to have thought about him.
The more approach next to the liberty of wood roofs is not in the
tall fleches, but in the coverage of the great central plaza
towers as Falaise or Vaucelles a four-sided roof and enormous that
it tries to be a fleche, and it is thick as the heavy structure it
covers.
The last of the Norman towers that Viollet-she-Duc he/she insists on it is
the so defined de of Clocher Santo-Romain, the northern tower on the