LE MANS CHOIR (1217-1254). THE DOUBLE AISLES " 270 ANGOULÊME CATHEDRAL. A XII-CENTURY CUPOLA CHURCH OF AQUITAINE WITH A TYPICAL FAÇADE OF POITOU'S ROMANESQUE SCHOOL " 290 THE PLANTAGENET TOMBS AT FONTEVRAULT " 298 THE PLANTAGENET GOTHIC CHOIR OF ST. SERGE AT ANGERS (1220-1225) " 312 NOTRE DAME DU PORT AT CLERMONT-FERRAND. TYPICAL XII-CENTURY CHURCH OF AUVERGNE'S ROMANESQUE SCHOOL " 338 LE PUY IN OLD AUVERGNE " 344 THE JACOBINS', OR DOMINICANS', CHURCH AT TOULOUSE (XIII CENTURY) " 358 ALBI CATHEDRAL (1282-1399). A MIDI FORTRESS CHURCH " 370 THE MEDIÆVAL CLOISTER OF ARLES " 398 THE XI-CENTURY SANCTUARY OF CLUNY AS IT WAS UNTIL THE REVOLUTION _Facing p._ 414 VEZELAY'S XII-CENTURY ABBEY CHURCH OF THE MADELEINE " 436 NOTRE DAME AT DIJON (1220-1245). BURGUNDIAN GOTHIC " 452 THE CRYPT OF THE ABBAYE-AUX-DAMES AT CAEN (1059-1066) " 484 BELFRY OF ST. PIERRE AT CAEN (1308-1317). PROTOTYPE FOR THE GOTHIC TOWERS OF NORMANDY AND BRITTANY " 490 THE HALL OF THE KNIGHTS AT MONT-SAINT-MICHEL (1203-1228). SECOND STORY OF THE MERVEILLE " 500 THE CHOIR OF BAYEAUX CATHEDRAL (1210-1260). TYPICAL OF NORMANDY'S ELABORATE GOTHIC " 546 How France Built Her Cathedrals [Illustration] How France Built Her Cathedrals INTRODUCTION "We may live without architecture, and worship without her, but _we cannot remember without her_. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes and the uncorrupted marble bears. There are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men, Poetry and Architecture, and the latter in some sort includes the former, and is mightier in its reality; it is well to have, not only what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled and their strength wrought and their eyes beheld, all the days of their life."[1]