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Excerpt from Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle De France, Vol. 1: Including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen T was with some trepidation that the makers Of these books turned again towards the isle-de-france. The grandeur of the mighty Cathedrals of this terri tory, the many possible photographs from which a comparatively small number must be selected, the huge mass Of archaeological, historical, legendary, and architectural detail Of which only the best - and a little Of the best - should be chosen - these were prob lems which, they knew, would meet them in every Cathedral-city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

For years the makers of this book have spent the summer time in wandering about the French country; led here by the fame of some old monument, or there by an incident of history. They have found the real, unspoiled France, often unexplored by any except the French themselves, and practically unknown to foreigners, even to the ubiquitous maker of guide-books. For weeks together they have travelled without meeting an English-speaking person. It is, therefore, not surprising that they were unable to find, in any convenient form in English, a book telling of the Cathedrals of the South which was at once accurate and complete. For the Cathedrals of that country are monuments not only of architecture and its history, but of the history of peoples, the psychology of the christianising and unifying of the barbarian and the Gallo-Roman, and many things besides, epitomised perhaps in the old words, -the struggle between the world, the flesh, and the devil.- In French, works on Cathedrals are numerous and exhaustive; but either so voluminous as to be unpractical except for the specialist as the volumes of Viollet-le-Duc, or so technical as to make each Cathedral seem one in an endless, monotonous procession, differing from the others only in size, style, and age.