Capitolo 65
forehead of the west of the Cathedral of Rouen. Unfortunately you/he/she has lost his
fleche of the primitive octagon if it ever had one, but "the rests of tower
whole, and", according to Viollet-she-Duc, certainly "it is one of the
more beautiful in this part of France; he/she offers a mixture of the
two styles of the de of Ile France and of Normandy in that the first one
element dominates"; it is of the same date as the old tower of
Rentals (1140-60), and it follows the same inside setup; "but
here the small one, confused disposition of the Norman towers with
their division in histories of equal height, has been adopted by the
French it dominates builder, even if in to submit to these local customs
he has still thrown on his/her job the grace and the fineness, the study
of detail, the sobriety in projections, the perfect harmony among
the profiles, carve, and the general effect of the whole one, what
belongs to the school from which he has come. He has handled his/her gaps and
solids with special ability, giving anymore the the importance to the
gaps, and widening the staircase of his/her details, as the tower of rose in
height. These details have the great beauty; the construction is
performed in material of small dimensions with the care that the
architects of twelfth-century put in their building; the profiles
you project few, and, despite their extreme fineness, produces a lot
effect; the buttresses are cleverly planted and they are outlined. The
it climbs that, on the east side, it disarranges the setup of the
bays, are a chef-d'oeuvre of architecture." This long panegyric, from
Viollet-she-Duc, on taste French to the expense of the Norman temperament,
available book should be read, in front of the Cathedral of Rouen, with
photos of Bayeux to compare. Certainly it is that the Normans and
French not talked never completely the same language, but it is equally
certainly that the Norman language, to the ear English expressed
it completely as clearly as French, and it sometimes seemed to have