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Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:53 am**

The local University had a set of books about medieval architecture and armour. I used to have a set of xeroxes of ALL the armour drawings. I wonder if that book is still there?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... let-le-Duc

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:45 pm**

They are nice pictures.

Trust that they bear a resemblance to reality only after you have found his source and verified it.

He was very much into 'fixing' things.

Wade

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:45 pm**

Beware Viollet Le Duc.
Beware....
and to stress it just a little bit more
BEWARE.

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Images by Viollet-le-Duc- very cool.

Images by Viollet-le-Duc- very cool.