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...Dans la cour du charmant hôtel de la Trémoille que nous avons vu démolir en 1841 (non sans regrets, car cette destruction a été un acte de vandalisme inutile et auquel il eût été facile de ne pas se livrer), il existait une tourelle dont la partie saillante était portée sur deux colonnes. Une archivolte surmontait ces deux points d'appui, et elle était taillée à contre-courbure. (Voir ci-contre la fig. 2.)...

This image comes from Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879).

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