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French provinces, arid particularly as to the art of the Romanesque 

 school. Revoil studied in Provence, and Ruprich Robert, the elder, 

 worked later in Normandy. Their labors are important, but incom- 

 plete, and their conclusions can be accepted only in part. We owe to 

 M. Brutails a masterly study on religious art in Roussillon. Finally 

 the lamented M. Rochemonteix studied the Romanesque art of the 

 altar. The greater part of this research appears in the form of 

 theses by the students of 1'Ecole des Chartes. Among eleven theses 

 of this character only four have been published, those of MM. Lefevre 

 Pontalis, Jean Virey, Thiollier, and my own. The French school at 

 Rome has now taken up researches into the history of art on its own 

 account. From 1889 to 1894 I studied in Rome the French origins of 

 Gothic art, and this year M. Bertaux published there the first volume 

 of a most important study on the art of Southern Italy. Other 

 works are in preparation. The students of the school at the Louvre, 

 unwilling to be left behind by their rivals, have been doing their 

 share in this work. Up to the present time they have occupied them- 

 selves mainly with the Renaissance, M. Vitry in a beautiful book 

 upon Michel Colombo, and MM. Marquet de Vasselot and Raymond 

 Koechlin in the study of the sixteenth-century sculpture at Troyes. 

 M. Salomon Reinach has carried on to the period of the Middle Ages 

 the course of lectures upon national antiquities delivered by M. Ber- 

 tram!. Two experts, who were friends of the lamented Courajod, 

 MM. Andre Michel and Lemonnier, faithfully gathered together his 

 lecture-notes, and have published them. Finally, I myself have been 

 able to bring out, within the last two years, two volumes of a manual 

 of French archaeology, in which ] think has been gathered together 

 the present knowledge of our national architecture from the sixth to 

 the sixteenth century. 



For the past one hundred years foreign archaeologists have con- 

 stantly been making important cont ributions t o the hist ory of French 

 architecture. In 1792 the Englishman Ducarel led his French con- 

 freres in the study of the Xorman architectural monuments. In our 

 own time, an American and two Germans have 1 , similarlv, led in the 

 siiuly of certain historical questions. 



The French archaeologists have confined themselves too closely 

 to their own country, and the superiority of several of these foreign 

 works lies in the fact that their authors were able to see French archi- 

 tecture in the light of their knowledge of that of other countries. It 

 is these comparisons that give its great value to Professor Dehio's 

 exhaustive work on Occidental Kcdesiastical Architecture, the pub- 

 lication of which began in 1885. This is a colossal work, which coin- 

 bines much personal research with a rt'sunx' of manv hundreds of 

 ot her books, t he whole being unified b\- his personal point of view, just 

 as all the drawings in the work are upon the same scale. For the future 



