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...Vers la fin du XIV^e siècle, on commence à modifier l'épannelage des contre-forts, qui jusqu'alors conservaient leurs faces parallèles et perpendiculaires au nu des murs; on cherche à dissimuler la rigidité de leurs angles, à diminuer l'obscurité produite par leurs fortes saillies, en posant leurs assises diagonalement, ainsi que l'indique la fig. 18...

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