Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . Beauvais 126 MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES the choir, more than at Paris, more than at Bourges, more than atSoissons, and especially more than at Laon, is the principal object; forit, the church is who is painfully conscious of ignorance, and who never would. Le Mans dream of suggesting a correction to anybody, may not venture to sug-gest an idea of any sort to an architect; but if it were allowed to para-phrase Viollet-le-Ducs words into a more or less emotional or twelfth-century form, one might say, after him, that, compared with Parisor Laon, the
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . Beauvais 126 MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES the choir, more than at Paris, more than at Bourges, more than atSoissons, and especially more than at Laon, is the principal object; forit, the church is who is painfully conscious of ignorance, and who never would. Le Mans dream of suggesting a correction to anybody, may not venture to sug-gest an idea of any sort to an architect; but if it were allowed to para-phrase Viollet-le-Ducs words into a more or less emotional or twelfth-century form, one might say, after him, that, compared with Parisor Laon, the Chartres apse shows the same genius that is shownin the Chartres rose; the same large mind that overrules, — the samestrong will that defies difficulties. The Chartres apse is as entertaining ROSES AND APSES 127 as all the other Gothic apses together, because it overrides thearchitect. You may, if you really have no imagination whatever,reject the idea that the Virgin herself made the plan; the feeblenessof our fancy is now congenital, organic, beyond stimulant or strych-
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