Pierre de Montreuil Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/pierre-de-montreuil Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:09:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Sainte-Chapelle Map http://travelsfinders.com/sainte-chapelle-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/sainte-chapelle-map.html#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:12:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=259913 Pierre de Montereau, 1245-7 The Gothic Revival has confused things so much that the Sainte-Chapelle looks at first like a slice of the English Law Courts put down in the middle of the French Palais de Justice – it faces the Tribunal de Police Correctionelle. The proportions give the game away: improbably tall, with the spherical triangles of the lower storey apparently buckling under the strain. Inside, this undercroft is also patently a device to keep the rest up, with tiny aisles which in fact correspond to the thickness of the piers upstairs which support the vault: Eiffel could have

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