. Art in France. 17S. FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. PIG. 179. RAMPARTS OF AVIGNON. Bonaguil, in Lot-et-Ga-ronne, built in the middleof the fifteenth century,the architects chief con-cern was to resist and toutilise artillery. He ex-tended the exterior de-fences widely, and in thelower parts of the towers,he made apertures for themuzzles of cannon. Andyet these proud towers,and this donjon upon the rocky scarp, offer an insurmountableresistance only to escalade. Powder would very soon blow this dry masonry to these castles sufferedfrom their too intimate re-lation to a form of society
. Art in France. 17S. FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. PIG. 179. RAMPARTS OF AVIGNON. Bonaguil, in Lot-et-Ga-ronne, built in the middleof the fifteenth century,the architects chief con-cern was to resist and toutilise artillery. He ex-tended the exterior de-fences widely, and in thelower parts of the towers,he made apertures for themuzzles of cannon. Andyet these proud towers,and this donjon upon the rocky scarp, offer an insurmountableresistance only to escalade. Powder would very soon blow this dry masonry to these castles sufferedfrom their too intimate re-lation to a form of societywhich was not destinedto endure; they were sub-jected to long cannonadesfrom the royal artillery,and were methodicallydestroyed in the time ofRichelieu and Mazarin,after the definitive victoryof the monarchy. Feudalarchitecture had to trans-form itself in order to subsist; the castle abandoned its obsoleteorgans of defence; the smiling Renaissance palace emerged fromits shell when at last the will of the king was powerful enoughto decree that
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