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The French mind is of all the most structure-loving, but the structure must be simple in the proportion that its surface is mobile and rich in gradations, it must remain close to her soil, to her Digitized by VjOOQ IC Amiens (xii to xiv Century). The cathedral. Digitized by VjOOQIC 308 MEDL«VAL ART rivers, and to the winds that cross her skies. The men of this land have always loved to give to matter the image of their visions. The first engraved and carved objects which the world knows appeare...d on the terri- tory that extends from the Atlantic to the Pyrenees and to the Cevennes. The Gauls beat, forged, and molded bronze before the arrival of the Legions. The Greco-Latin genius became vibrant each time that it touched this soil. And yet before sculpture had departed from the cloister entirely, the saints, both men and women, had been far-away gods whom the people could barely see at the summit of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Once they had gained the street they lived there. The local god, the god of works and of days, the god of the foun- tains and the woods, the genius, who participated in all the acts of the agricultural, social, and industrial life of the people, joined the company of the saints — without any one perceiving it.
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