[55] Description de l'Abbaye du Mont St. Michel et de ses Abords, by Ed. Corroyer; Paris, 1877.
154. ABBEY OF MONT ST. MICHEL. LONGITUDINAL SECTION, FROM WEST TO EAST
The longitudinal section ([Fig. 154]) shows the crypt, or lower church. This was not, as has been frequently asserted, actually hollowed out of the rock; it was, however, very ingeniously contrived in the fifteenth century over the ruins of the Romanesque church in the space between the declivity of the mount and the artificial plateau of the earlier architects. The substructures of the Romanesque church which were enlarged by Robert de Thorigni in the thirteenth century are indicated in this diagram. They are of gigantic proportions, especially towards the west.
[Fig. 155] shows the so-called Galerie de l'Aquilon (Gallery of the North Wind), one of the upper stories of the claustral buildings to the north of the church constructed by Roger II., eleventh abbot (1106-1122).
155. ABBEY OF MONT ST. MICHEL. GALERIE DE L'AQUILON (GALLERY OF THE NORTH WIND)
156. ABBEY OF MONT ST. MICHEL, NORTH FRONT. GENERAL VIEW FROM THE SEA
