A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ng more nearly akin to the royalcountry than to its southern neighbours, jidliti-cally and socially. This great tract of country,embracing the modern departments of Aisne, Ar-dennes, Aube, Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Marne,Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loiret, Loir-ct-Cher,«4 FRANCE FRANCE Mariie, Ni&vre, Oise, Seine-ct-l\Iarne, Scinc-et-Oise, Somme, and Yoiiiie, has tVir its mostnorthern towns of importance Abbeville and ; for its westernmost landmark, Toursor Chinon ; for its easternmost, Chaumont orLang
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ng more nearly akin to the royalcountry than to its southern neighbours, jidliti-cally and socially. This great tract of country,embracing the modern departments of Aisne, Ar-dennes, Aube, Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Marne,Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loiret, Loir-ct-Cher,«4 FRANCE FRANCE Mariie, Ni&vre, Oise, Seine-ct-l\Iarne, Scinc-et-Oise, Somme, and Yoiiiie, has tVir its mostnorthern towns of importance Abbeville and ; for its westernmost landmark, Toursor Chinon ; for its easternmost, Chaumont orLangres; and as marking the southernmostboundary, Nevers, or Chateauroux. It iswithin this region that the Komanesque archi-tecture took that constructional form whichmade the growth from it of the Gothic systempossible; it is here that the Gothic construc-tion and Gothic art grew up and had its mostperfect development; it is within this districtthat all but one or two of the most importantGothic cathedrals were built and still stand ;and here the greatel part of the late Gothic or. Nave uf Abbey CnnRCH at Vezelay (Yonne) ; 12th seQiicircular transverse arches have sunk. Flamboyant structures were erected. It is atleast equal to any part of France in the valueand beauty of its Renaissance chateaux, and inthe importance of those few churches which wehave from the Renaissance epoch. It is inParis and its immediate neighbourhood thatby far the most important late neoclassic build-ings were built, those which in the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries set the pace for thedevelopment of the Post-Renaissance stylesthroughout Europe. The architectural monu-ments of this region are so very numerous andof such peculiar importance that it wUl be im-jiracticable to give even such a brief and merelysuggestive list of buildings as can be furnishedfor other districts (see Parts II. to X.). Onthe other hand, the history of French architec-9o ture is in a way discoverable, if we pass
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