Capitolo 76
using the word in the Norman churches. Your photos of Bayeux or
Boscherville or Secqueville La will show to a look if the
term "adresse" it applies to them. Vendome would also be praised rather
for "droiture" that for "adresse."--If the word "adresse" he/she wants to say
the ability, dexterity, the ability or the simple technical ability the
same thing is anything that French have admired always
what the Normans ever did. Viollet-she-Duc same it seems to be a
few uncertain if to placed more stresses on that or the other
quality: "If one tries to appreciate the conception of this tower,"
quotas the Abbe Bulteau (11,84), "one will see that is as frank
as the execution is simple and skilled. Starting from the fund,
one reaches the top of the fleche without marked interruption; without
anything to interrupt the general form of the building. This
clocher whose base is wide (the pleine), thick, and free from
you adorn, he transforms, as it jumps, in an acute buds with
eight faces, without his/her possible being to say where the thick one
construction ends and the light construction starts."
Granting, as one owes, that this hideaway of the transition is a
beauty, one would still like to be rather sure that the Rentals
scheme is the best. The Norman clochers that is thrown, and that
to Vendome that for admission it is simple, the de of Clocher Santo-Giovanna on the
Church of Saint-Germain to Auxerre it seems to be thought among the
following in importance, even if is only approximately one hundred and sixty
feet in height (forty-nine meters), and therefore as soon as in the same
you classify with Rentals. Some photo shows that the Auxerres bud it is
also simple; and what to Etampes Lei you/he/she has already seen to be of the
Vendome rather than of the type of Rentals. The clocher to Senlis is
more "habile"; show an effort to be intelligent, and he/she offers a
standard of comparison; but the architects of mediaeval seem to have
he/she thought that none of them bore the rivalry with Laon for technical