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The cathedral is a mixture of Perpendicular with Flamboyant, the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on a pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic … The rest of the architecture among which this curious Flamboyant is set is a Perpendicular with horizontal bars across: and with the most detestable crocketing, utterly vile.
Among the only standing buildings after the 1944 bombings was the Notre-Dame church, built in Flamboyant Gothic style from the 13th to the 15th centuries to replace the former castle's chapel ; its roof and facade were destroyed, as well as one of its two towers and the top of the other one.
The transition ( in France ) from Rayonnant to Flamboyant Gothic was gradual and evolutionary in form, marked primarily by a shift towards new tracery patterns based on S-shaped curves ( these curves resemble flickering flames, from which the new style got its name ).

Flamboyant and were
Two South American species of trees, the Jacaranda and the Flamboyant, which were introduced during the colonial era, contribute to the city's colour palette with streets lined with either the lilac blossoms of the Jacaranda or the flame red blooms from the Flamboyant.
Cora's memoirs were discovered in 1982 in the hands of a German collector, and released by Granada Publishing Ltd in 1983, under the title The Memoirs of Cora Pearl: The Erotic Reminiscences of a Flamboyant 19th Century Courtesan.

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Doorways surmounted by Flamboyant mouldings are very common in both ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in France.
The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre ( 349 ft ) plain pyramid dating from the 1140s and a 113-metre ( 377 ft ) early 16th century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower.
In 1506, lightning destroyed the north spire, which was rebuilt in the ' Flamboyant ' style by local mason Jehan de Beauce ( who also worked on the abbey church in Vendôme ).
Antoine was heavily in debt and in 1455, sold the château to Jacques d ’ Espinay, son of a chamberlain to the Duke of Brittany and himself chamberlain to the king ; Espinay built the chapel, completed by his son Charles in 1612, in which the Flamboyant Gothic style is mixed with new Renaissance motifs, and began the process of rebuilding the fifteenth-century château that resulted in the sixteenth-seventeenth century aspect of the structure to be seen today.
At one point it was owned by a physician who used the magnificent Flamboyant chapel on the first floor as a dissection room.
The Big Picture was put together by his manager and partner in Flamboyant Entertainment, Rich King.
It was released by Rich King on Flamboyant Entertainment.
Bare Cadillac chassis could be purchased if a buyer insisted, but the intention was that few would do so. Flamboyant Cadillac dealer in England namely Lendrum & Hartman, ordered two such chassis in even rarer right hand drive ( RHD ) and had Van den Plas ( Belgium ) build a sports sedan ( Eng # 702298, which was successfully shown in various concourse de elegance events in Europe before being bought by the young Nawab of Bahawalpur ); and a limousine ( engine # 702299 ).
* " Flamboyant " — " Move Me " by James Gilstrap
Flamboyant public persona: Lord Byron in Albanian dress, as painted by Thomas Phillips in 1835.
This western tower, one of the best examples of Flamboyant Gothic in Spain, was finished by architect Gil de Hontañón, who added to the structure an openwork spire in a modern Renaissance style.
Although such efforts are now regarded as mistaken, the resulting terms have to some extent survived ( Rayonnant and Flamboyant are still widely used by art historians, though the misleading old term Lancet Gothic has generally given way to High Gothic ).
Flamboyant, expressive and narcissistic, he enjoys the constant attention given to him by his groupies, and often acts overly confident because of this.

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Tours Cathedral: 15th century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.
Flamboyant in her personal life and in roles she pursues, Collins continues to act in theatre, film and television in a career that has spanned more than 60 years.
Flamboyant tracery at Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Limoges | Limoges Cathedral.
The Flamboyant Arch is one that is drafted from four points, the upper part of each main arc turning upwards into a smaller arc and meeting at a sharp, flame-like point.
Fifteen huge mid-13th century windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery ( added to the upper chapel c. 1490 ) dominates the western wall.
Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings, from Louis XI to Francis I. Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture.
The rood screen is a filigree work in stone in the Flamboyant Gothic style.
The 16th century porch on the south side is an example of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture.
In architecture, where the style was long-lasting, local varieties of it are often known as Perpendicular architecture in England, and as Sondergotik in Germany and Central Europe, Flamboyant Gothic in France, and later the Manueline in Portugal, and the Isabelline in Spain.
In 1851 he published An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in England, which proposed the terms " Flowing " and " Flamboyant " ( the latter term already in use in France, though not with exactly the same meaning, continuing right through the English Perpendicular Period ) instead of Thomas Rickman's " Decorated ", which had been generally adopted since it was first published in 1817.
In the later Flamboyant Gothic style, an " ogee arch ," an arch delineating a void with a pointed head, like S-shaped curves, became prevalent.
The ogee shape is one of the characteristics of the Gothic style of architecture, especially decorative elements in the 14th and 15th century late Gothic styles called Flamboyant in France and Decorated in England.
Flamboyant hockey commentator Don Cherry used the term ' pinko ' while introducing Toronto's new mayor Rob Ford.
The middle-density suburbs are Eastvale located close to Zimuto Police Camp and Target Kopje located on the southern part of town on a small hill close to Flamboyant Hotel.

Gothic-style and Hall
The law school was originally housed in Stuart Hall, a Gothic-style limestone building on the campus's main quadrangles.
The Manor House listed grade 2 * includes a Great Hall formerly used as a barn, or a barn of the 15th century now aggrandized with 20th-century Gothic-style windows, and is now attached to the small irregular manor house of the late 16th century, which stands on the site of the reputed castle built by William Malet.

Gothic-style and its
The Cathedral of Saint-Corentin, with its Gothic-style façade, was constructed between the 13th and 16th centuries.
It contains an impressive collection of 18th-century furniture, paintings and porcelain, and in its grounds a John Carr stable block converted into a chapel in Victorian times with Italianate decor, a Gothic-style folly built by Daniel Garrett circa 1745, coach house with carriage, Victorian stable block, walled garden, terraced garden, and lake with a Roman-style temple.
The Gothic-style fence with its cut-outs and obelisk finials was also added in this renovation.

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In 1899, the Derwent Valley Water Board was set up to supply water to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield, and the two Gothic-style dams were built across the River Derwent to create Howden Reservoir ( 1912 ) and Derwent Reservoir ( 1916 ).
Gothic-style buildings were built around the wooded valley.
These towers were topped with Gothic-style pyramid roofs.
Sir Henry Vane the Elder purchased the castle in 1626 and neighbouring Barnard Castle from the Crown, and as the Earls of Darlington and Dukes of Cleveland, a Gothic-style entrance hall and octagon-shaped drawing room were added.

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