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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Since you are so much charmed by our Cathedral, I shall be most happy to take you over it and explain its details," said the Abbé Plomb to Durtal. "I shall accept with pleasure, Monsieur l'Abbé, for it fairly haunts me, it possesses me your Notre Dame! You know, no doubt, Quicherat's theories of Gothic art?" "Yes, and I believe them to be correct.
Although when Michelet was writing his history of France, Quicherat's work had not yet been published, the chronicler helped the historian by lending Michelet the MSS. he was then annotating. But to return to the earlier years of the century.
"I reserve my opinion, indeed, as to the accuracy of Quicherat's declaration that 'the history of architecture in the middle ages is no more than the history of the struggle of architects against the thrust and weight of vaulting, for there is something in this art beyond material industry and a problem of practice; at the same time he is certainly right on almost every point.
A thoughtful child, sitting alone, and very still, might find birds alight on her in a friendly way, as has happened to the author. If she fed them, so much the better. See M. Siméon Luce, Jeanne d'Arc in Domremy. Here we follow Father Ayroles's correction of Quicherat's reading of the manuscripts.
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