Following him came the great palace-making Sultans whose walled cities of splendid mosques and towers have Romanesque qualities of mass and proportion, and, as M. Raymond Koechlin has pointed out, inevitably recall the "robust simplicity of the master builders who at the very same moment were beginning in France the construction of the first Gothic cathedrals and the noblest feudal castles.

The Romanesque of the architectural is said to be of particular interest to connoisseurs, and the queer archaic capitals must certainly attract the notice even of ordinary tourists....

In the nave are the piers and Romanesque capitals of an early, but not the earliest, church on the spot.

The ruined cloisters of the monastery have all the severe charm of the simple Romanesque style of the early period, but there is no means of knowing whether they date from the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth century.

This part of the old church shows the transition between the Romanesque and the Gothic styles.

It is Romanesque of the eleventh century, and belonged to a priory of which no other trace is left.

Facing the forgotten graves, upon this spot removed from all habitations, is the most beautiful Romanesque doorway of the Albigeois.

They show that Romanesque architecture and sculpture had already reached their perfect expression in Languedoc.

Lastly, I came to the apse, that part of a Romanesque church in which the artist seizes the purely religious ideal, or allows it to escape him.

This is particularly the case with those in the Romanesque dialect, which are replete with the peculiar wit and spirit of the country.

The material of the whole is fair white marble, enriched with mosaics, and wrought into beautiful scroll-work of acanthus leaves and other Romanesque adornments.

The circular font of S. Frediano, for example, carved with figures in high relief by a certain Robertus of the twelfth century, combines the Romanesque mannerism with the naïveté of mediaeval fancy.

THE ROMANESQUE AND POINTED STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE; with Notices of some of the principal Buildings on which it is founded.

BOUTELLEAU, JACQUES. Romanesques, by Jacques Chardonne, pseud.

Romanesque sculpture in Saintonge.

Modern romanesque & cipher monograms.

Romanesque mural painting of Catalonia.

Jacques Arnaut et la somme romanesque.

BOUTELLEAU, JACQUES. Romanesques, by Jacques Chardonne, pseud.

Romanesque sculpture in Saintonge.

Amélie Bosquet, La Normandie Romanesque et Merveilleuse (Paris and Rouen, 1845), pp. 295 sq.; Jules Lecoeur, Esquisses du Bocage Normand (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883-1887), ii. 126-129.

TOURNAY (35), a town of Hainault, Belgium, on the Scheldt, 35 m. SW. of Brussels; in the 5th century was the seat of the Merovingian kings, but now presents a handsome modern appearance; has a fine Romanesque cathedral and flourishing manufactures of hosiery, linen, carpets, and porcelain.

Une jeune fille s'avance vers ce salon; la figure romanesque, le front rêveur, les yeux baissés ...

The first of these, written in 1712, though not published" until 1737, appeared under the several titles of Pharsamon, les Folies romanesques, and le Don Quichotte moderne, and was, as one of the titles discloses, an attack upon the romantic novel, as exemplified in those of Mlle. de Scudéry.

Pharsamon, ou les Folies romanesques, novel in ten parts, printed in 1737.