Capitolo 80
rather it represents Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Abbot Peter the
Venerable of Cluny, Abbot Abelard of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, and
Queen Eleanor of Guienne that you/he/she was gotten married Luigi-she-Jeune in 1137;
who had taken the Saint cross Bernard in 1147; who returned
from the Earth Saint in 1149; and to that he/she forced Saint Bernard
you approve his/her divorce in 1152. Eleanor and Saint that Bernard is
their centuries separately lived still, to the same duration and in the same
church. Precisely speaking, the old tower represents none of them;
the same new tower is not really more florid than Eleanor it was; perhaps
this way, if one can judge from the ways of the court-suit of
his/her time. The old tower is almost Norman, while Eleanor was completely
Gascon, and Gascony was florid without being always always right.
The new tower, if you/he/she had been built in 1150 as the old one
you/he/she has perfectly expressed Eleanor, also in height and the apparent effort
to make smaller his/her consort, unless Eleanor made smaller his/her husband without
an effort and both in art and in history the result missed the harmony.
Both the contrast what is able, doesn't strike the fact that no
the other church in France has two they bud that need is discussed in
comparison with these. Indeed, any other cathedral of the same class
it has some it buds to everybody, and this superiority of Rentals gave the most greater part of
his/her point to a motto that "with the it buds of Rentals the choir,
of Beauvais, the vase of Amiens and the façade of Rheims", one
you/he/she could make a perfect church--for us the tourists.
The towers have taken a lot of duration, although they is the least religious
and less part complicated of architecture of church, and in any way
essential to the church; indeed, Saint Bernard thought of them a
bulge because of the pride and the worldliness, and this is only Saint
The way of Bernard to say that they was an ornament created to
you gratify the artistic sense of the beauty. Beautiful as them I am, one