. Art in France. 5.—HOTEL DE VILLE, ATSAINT-QLENTIN. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. l86.—COURT OF THE HUTLL DltL AT ULA, NE. keeps. Lofty blocks of buildings enclose two quadrangular their towering walls arc also defences; the huge buttresseswhich reinforce them areunited at the top bypointed arches, which formmachicolations. Fortresseswere numerous in thedomain of King Rene;they can bear the prox-imity of the magnificentRoman ruins. The sameradiant light gilds the ruderelics of feudal days, andthe splendid buildings ofantiquity, triumphal archand battlemenled donjon, the successive structures
. Art in France. 5.—HOTEL DE VILLE, ATSAINT-QLENTIN. ART IN FRANCE. FIG. l86.—COURT OF THE HUTLL DltL AT ULA, NE. keeps. Lofty blocks of buildings enclose two quadrangular their towering walls arc also defences; the huge buttresseswhich reinforce them areunited at the top bypointed arches, which formmachicolations. Fortresseswere numerous in thedomain of King Rene;they can bear the prox-imity of the magnificentRoman ruins. The sameradiant light gilds the ruderelics of feudal days, andthe splendid buildings ofantiquity, triumphal archand battlemenled donjon, the successive structures which civilisation extracted from the sameProvengal limestone. Meanwhile civil architecture was evolved inthe towns; in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the burgessesbegan to install themselves in comfortable dwellings behind the pro-tecting ramparts. They varied greatly according to the character of the locality; the general style ofthe habitation indicated the differ-ence between the France doil andthe France doc, just as did thelanguage of the two reg
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