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Chapter 8

Gothic Development: France

Buttresses Flying Buttresses Tracery
Cusps Finials Gargoyles
Quadripartite Vaults Sexpartite Vaults Triforium Galleries
Narthex Nave Apse
Ambulatory Side Aisle Transepts

Gothic Development in France, brings us an entirely new vocabulary of building pieces and parts, and explains the origin of the term "gothic." Definitions are notably: Buttresses, Flying Buttresses, Tracery, Cusps, Finials, Gargoyles, Quadripartite Vaults, Sexpartite Vaults, as well as the individual parts of Gothic churches, and the usual Narthex, Nave, Apse, Ambulatory, Side Aisle, Transepts, and lastly, Triforium Galleries. The cities and their cathedrals to be viewed are Mont. St. Michel in Normandy, the Abbey Church of Saint Pierre in Cluny, the Cathedral of Saint Lazare in Autun, Notre Dame du Port in Clermont-Ferrand, St. Denis in the Ile de France, Notre Dame in Paris, and the Cathedrals of Chartres, Rheims, and Amiens. In Avignon we shall discuss the uncompleted bridge, the Pont D’Avignon.

Architecture:
Past, Present, & Future
Chapter 8
France: Introduction to the Gothic
Normandy: Mont. St. Michel, the Abbey
Clermont-Ferrand: Notre-Dame Du Port
Cluny: The Abbey Church Of Saint Pierre
Autun: The Cathedral Of Saint-Lazare
Ile de France: St. Denis, the Abbey Church
Paris: Notre Dame Cathedral
Chartres: Cathedral
Reims: Gate of Mars, the Cathedral Notre Dame
Amiens: The City and The Cathedral
Amiens: Cathedral
Avignon: Pont d'Avignon
Beauvais: Cathedral
Bourges: Palais Jacques Coeur