They all stood up and said grace, and Durtal made an appointment with the Abbe Plomb to visit the Cathedral.
Then he went home, meditating, as he walked, on this strange division of art in the middle ages, and the supremacy given to France in architecture, when as yet she was so inferior in every other art.
"And it must be owned," he concluded, "that she has now lost this superiority; for it is long indeed since she produced an architect.

The men who assume the name are mere thieving bunglers, builders devoid of all individuality and learning.

They are not even able to pilfer skilfully from their precursors.

What are they nowadays?
Patchers up of chapels, church cobblers, botchers and blunderers!" [1] The English use of the word Ogee is thus defined: "An arch or moulding which displays sectionally contrasted curves similar to that of the _cyma reversa_." FAIRHOLT, "Dict.

of Terms used in Art;" and PARKER, "A Concise Glossary of Terms used in Architecture."-- [_Translator_.].