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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

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_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
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[Illustration: NOTRE DAME ... _de NOYON_]

THE CATHEDRALS OF NORTHERN FRANCE

By FRANCIS MILTOUN

WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS,
PLANS, AND DIAGRAMS,

By BLANCHE McMANUS

[Illustration]

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.

_THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED 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 mo