Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . Bourges. ROSES AND APSES 125 Amiens and Beauvais have each seven chapels, but only one aisle,so that they do not belong in the same class with the apses of Paris,Bourges, and Chartres, though the plans are worth studying forcomparison, since they show how many-sided the problem was, andhow far from satisfied the architects were with their own most interesting of all, for comparison with Chartres, is LeMans, where the apsidal chapels are carried to fanaticism, whilethe vaulting seems to be reasonable enough, and the double aisle suc-cessfully managed
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres . Bourges. ROSES AND APSES 125 Amiens and Beauvais have each seven chapels, but only one aisle,so that they do not belong in the same class with the apses of Paris,Bourges, and Chartres, though the plans are worth studying forcomparison, since they show how many-sided the problem was, andhow far from satisfied the architects were with their own most interesting of all, for comparison with Chartres, is LeMans, where the apsidal chapels are carried to fanaticism, whilethe vaulting seems to be reasonable enough, and the double aisle suc-cessfully managed, if Viollet-le-Duc permits ignorant people to forman opinion on architecturaldogma. For our purposes,the architectural dogmamay stand, and the Parisscheme may be taken forgranted, as alone correct andorthodox; all that Viollet-le-Duc teaches is that theChartres scheme is unortho-dox, not to say heretical;and this is the point onwhich his words are mostinteresting. The church at Chartresbelonged not to the people,not to the priesthood, a
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