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...Le chapiteau est si bien admis, dans l'architecture civile, comme un chapeau destiné à soulager les portées des poutres, que nous en trouvons dans la cour de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune (XV^e siècle), qui, reposant sur des fûts à huit pans, se divisent à la tête en trois corbeaux, pour recevoir les poitraux de façade et la poutre transversale supportant les solives du portique (55)...

This image comes from Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879).

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