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Excerpt from French Cathedrals and Chateaux, Vol. 2 of 2 The architectural development of these fortress chateaux during the Gothic period shows a growing beauty and richness of form and detail. The luxuriance of Gothic ornament was largely confined to interior walls, to courts, and halls; but pinnacles, towers, dormers, and grotesques multiplied every where, producing that picturesque outline, that broken and irregular sky line, which is the most striking characteristic of all Gothic work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.