333

St. Brieuc 342

St. Corentin de Quimper 348

Notre Dame d'Amiens (diagram) 366

Map of Angers 367

St. Etienne de Bourges (diagram) 370

Notre Dame de Laon (diagram) 372

St. Julien, le Mans (diagram) 373

Map of Nantes 374

Notre Dame de Noyon (diagram) 375

Notre Dame de Paris (diagram) 376

Notre Dame de Reims (diagram) 377

Flying Buttresses, Reims 377

Notre Dame de Rouen (diagram) 378

Basilique de St. Denis (diagrams) 380

Map of Tours 381

Charles VII. 383

Ground Plan 386

Cross Section 387

Interior 388

Cross Section 389

_The Cathedrals of Northern France_

INTRODUCTION

An attempt to enumerate the architectural monuments of France is not
possible without due consideration being given to the topographical
divisions of the country, which, so far as the early population and the
expression of their arts and customs is concerned, naturally divides
itself into two grand divisions of influences, widely dissimilar.

Historians, generally, agree that the country which embraces the
Frankish influences in the north, as distinct from that where are spoken
the romance languages, finds its partition somewhere about a line drawn
from the mouth of the Loire to the Swiss lakes. Territorially, this
approaches an equal division, with the characteristics of architectural
forms well nigh as equally divided. Indeed, Fergusson, who in his
general estimates and valuations is seldom at fault, thus divides
it:--"on a line which follows the valley of the Loire t