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GOTHIC CONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE
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degree lessened. The perspective elevation of this vault is shown in Fig. 12. [1]

FIG. 12.

Incomplete and awkward as is the system adopted at Morienval, we have here a form of vault construction such as had been before unknown; a form which, though imperfectly carried out, already contains some of the most characteristic structural features, and involves some of the

  1. This figure is copied from a drawing by M. Boesviswald, architect of the French Government, and published with his permission.