. Art in France. HOI Sl_S \T ROIKN. (Photo. XrurJcin.) FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. FIG. 184.—AITRE SMXT-MACLOL, AT ROLEN. shell of masonry encloses rooms with graceful vaults; the wall ishoneycombed with galleries and staircases, which constitute so manytraps for the feet of theassailant. Saint Louis andhis successors hastened tomake Carcassonne equallyimpregnable when it be-came a royal town. Ona vast, wind-swept plainthe citadel rears itsmighty bulk, dominatingthe historic passage of theGaronne into the Mediter-ranean ; the double en-ceinte flanked by fiftytowers encircles an abrup
. Art in France. HOI Sl_S \T ROIKN. (Photo. XrurJcin.) FEUDAL ART AND CIVIC ART. FIG. 184.—AITRE SMXT-MACLOL, AT ROLEN. shell of masonry encloses rooms with graceful vaults; the wall ishoneycombed with galleries and staircases, which constitute so manytraps for the feet of theassailant. Saint Louis andhis successors hastened tomake Carcassonne equallyimpregnable when it be-came a royal town. Ona vast, wind-swept plainthe citadel rears itsmighty bulk, dominatingthe historic passage of theGaronne into the Mediter-ranean ; the double en-ceinte flanked by fiftytowers encircles an abrupthill; the huge flat, bare walls, unrelieved by any accidents save the natural asperities of thestone, are pierced with long loopholes and crowned by battlements,the sharp outlines of which have been restored by is calculated to the end of keeping a constant watchupon the aggressor. The defenders could follow his movements from a hundred hiding-places whenhe advanced towards the gloomywall that betrayed no sign of walk upon these ramparts is acrushing e
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