Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française, published in Paris by B. Bance in 1858, is a multi-volume architectural dictionary by the French restorer Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, written for architects and students of medieval French building. Its pictures are numbered engraved plates of cross-sections, ironwork, voussoirs and column bases, drawn in crisp line with hatching for stone and masonry. A designer can borrow their clear diagrammatic logic, showing structure through section and cutaway views, and the fine hatched rendering of stone.
