Project Gutenberg's The Cathedrals of Northern France, by Francis MiltounThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Cathedrals of Northern FranceAuthor: Francis MiltounIllustrator: Blanche McManusRelease Date: August 27, 2009 [EBook #29820]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CATHEDRALS OF NORTHERN FRANCE ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)Many of the images of this ebook may be viewed full-size by clicking on them.(note of transcriber)coverThe Cathedral SeriesThe following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top profuselyillustrated. $2.50The Cathedrals of Northern FranceBY FRANCIS MILTOUNThe Cathedrals of Southern FranceBY FRANCIS MILTOUNThe Cathedrals of EnglandBY MARY J. TABERThe following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, profuselyillustrated. Net, $2.00The Cathedrals and Churches of the RhineBY FRANCIS MILTOUNThe Cathedrals of Northern SpainBY CHARLES RUDYL. C. PAGE & COMPANYNew England Building, Boston, Mass.NOTRE DAME ... de NOYONTHE CATHEDRALS OFNORTHERN FRANCEB y F R A N C I S M I L T O U Nw i t ...
Project Gutenberg's The Cathedrals of Northern France, by Francis Miltoun
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Title: The Cathedrals of Northern France
Author: Francis Miltoun
Illustrator: Blanche McManus
Release Date: August 27, 2009 [EBook #29820]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CATHEDRALS OF NORTHERN FRANCE ***
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cover
The Cathedral Series
The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top profusely
illustrated. $2.50
The Cathedrals of Northern France
BY FRANCIS MILTOUN
The Cathedrals of Southern France
BY FRANCIS MILTOUN
The Cathedrals of England
BY MARY J. TABER
The following, each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely
illustrated. Net, $2.00
The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine
BY FRANCIS MILTOUN
The Cathedrals of Northern Spain
BY CHARLES RUDY
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass.NOTRE DAME ... de NOYON
THE CATHEDRALS OF
NORTHERN FRANCE
B y F R A N C I S M I L T O U N
w i t h e i g h t y i l l u s t r a t i o n s ,
p l a n s , a n d d i a g r a m s ,
B y B L A N C H E M c M A N U S
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BOSTON
L. C. Page and Company
MDCCCCIIII
Copyright, 1903
By L. C. Page & Company
(incorporated)
All rights reserved
Published October, 1903
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
HIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
T BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST
TO THE GENIUS OF RACE WHICH
MADE POSSIBLE THE EXISTENCE OF THESE
ARCHITECTURAL "GLORIES OF FRANCE"APOLOGIA
"There are two ways of writing a book of travel: to recount the journey itself or the results of it." This is also the case with
regard to any work which attempts to purvey topographical or historical information of a nature which is only to be gathered
upon the spot; and, when an additional side-light is shown by reason of the inclusion, as in the present instance, of the artistic
and religious element, it becomes more and more a question of judicious selection and arrangement of fact, rather than a mere
hazarding of opinions, which, in many cases, can be naught but conjecture, and may, in spite of any good claim to
authoritativeness, be misunderstood or perverted to an inutile end, or, what is worse, swallowed in that oblivion where lies so
much excellent thought, which, lacking either balance or timeliness, has become stranded, wrecked, and practically lost to view
because of its unappropriate and unattractive presentation.
To-day, the purely technical writer may have little hope of immortality unless he is broad-minded enough to take a cultivated
interest in many matters outside the ken of his own particular sphere. The best-equipped person living could not produce a new
"Dictionary of Architecture," and expect it to fill any niche that may be waiting for such a work, unless he brought to bear, in
addition to his own special knowledge, something of the statistician, something of the professed compiler, and, if possible, a little
of the not unimportant knowledge possessed by the maker and seller of books, meaning—the publisher. Given these
qualifications, it is likely that he will then produce an ensemble as far in advance of what otherwise might have been as is the
modern printing machine, as a factor in the dissemination of literature, as compared with the ancient scribes working to the
same end.
The sentimentalist and rhapsodist in words and ideas is a dwindling factor at the present day, and a new presentation of fact
is occasionally to be met with in the printed page. The best "book of travel" within the knowledge of the writer, and perhaps one
of the slightest in bulk ever written in the English language, is Stevenson's "Inland Voyage"—here were imagination,
appreciation, and a new way of seeing things, and, above all, enthusiasm; and this is the formula upon which doubtless many a
future writer will build his reputation, though he may never reach the significant heights expressed by Stevenson in the
picturesque wording of his wish to be made Bishop of Noyon.
This apparent digression into a critical estimate of the making of books is but another expression of the justification of the
writer in the attempt herein made to set forth in attractive and enduring form certain facts and realities with regard to the grand
and glorious group of cathedrals of Northern France.
They have appeared as demanding something more than the conventional guide-book, or even technical estimates as to their
perfections, and the belief is that the gathering together, after this fashion, of the contemporary information not always to the
hand of the general reader presents an attraction as appealing and deserving of a place on the book-shelf as would be an
avowed reference work, or a volume made to sell on the strength of its bulk or ornateness, or, lacking these questionable
attributes, presented in the guise of a whilom text-book, the sole province of which is to impart "knowledge" after a certain well
recognized and set pattern.
It is believed that, regardless of much that has been said and written anent the subject, the fact remains that some
considerable numbers of persons may be supposed to exist who would be glad of a further suggestion which would make possible
an acquaintance with the cathedrals of France as a part of their own personal experience. To all such, then, it is to be hoped this
book will appeal.
F. M.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 11
Part I. Transition Examples
I. Introductory 41
II. Notre Dame de Laon 43
III. Notre Dame de Noyon 49
IV. Notre Dame de Soissons 54
Part II. the Grand Group
I. Introductory 61
II. Notre Dame d'Amiens 64
III. St. Pierre de Beauvais 70IV. Notre Dame de Rouen 79
V. Basilique de St. Denis 93
VI. Notre Dame de Paris 101
VII. St. Julien; Le Mans 113
VIII. Notre Dame de Chartres 123
IX. Notre Dame de Reims 132
Part III. the Cathedrals of the Loire
I. Introductory 147
II. St. Croix d'Orleans 150
III. St. Louis de Blois 156
IV. St Gatien de Tours 163
V. St. Maurice d'Angers 173
VI. St. Pierre de Nantes 183
Part IV . Central France
I. St. Etienne d'Auxerre 191
II. St. Etienne de Bourges 199
III. St. Cyr and St. Juliette de Nevers 209
IV. St. Mammes de Langres 218
V. Notre Dame d'Auxonne 220
Part V . East of Paris
I. Introductory 223
II. Notre Dame de Boulogne-sur-Mer 231
III. Notre Dame de Cambrai 234
IV. Notre Dame de St. Omer 237
V. St. Vaast d'Arras 242
VI. St. Etienne de Toul 247
VII. St. Etienne, Châlons-sur-Marne 251
VIII. St. Dié 254
IX. St. Lazare d'Autun 257
X. St. Bénigne de