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GOTHIC CONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE
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marked by plain string-courses. In the ground-story three round arched portals of modest dimensions, and each of three orders, open into the nave and aisles respectively; while in the central compartment are three round arched openings in each of the upper stories, and in each tower compartment is one such opening in each of the same stories. A low gable over the central compartment, with a single small arched opening, completes a design which is simple even to baldness.
FIG. 58.
original construction. The original roofs were replaced by them in the thirteenth century.
