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 5IO Outlines of European History them. It has been estimated that the bishop's church at Paris (Notre Dame) would cost at least five millions of dollars to re- produce, and there are a number of other cathedrals in France, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany which must have been almost as costly. No modern buildings equal them in beauty Fig. i8i. Romanesque Church of ChItel-Montagne in the Department of Allier, France This is a pure Romanesque building with no alterations in a later style^ such as are common. Heavy as the walls are, they are reenforced by buttresses along the side. All the arches are round, none of them pointed and grandeur, and they are the most striking memorial of the religious spirit and the tov/n pride of the Middle Ages. The construction of a cathedral sometimes extended over two or three centuries, and much of the money for it must have been gathered penny by penny. It should be remembered that every one belonged in those days to s the one great Catholic Church, so that the building of a new church was a matter of