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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: said, of wood, and covered with plaster, imitating the solidity of
stone. Still, these houses are not without a certain originality,
through the fact that each architect, or each burgher, has endeavored
to solve for himself the problem of styles of building.
The bridge at Arcis is of wood. About four hundred feet above the
bridge the river is crossed by another bridge, on which rise the tall
wooden sides of a mill with several sluices. The space between the
public bridge and this private bridge forms a basin, on the banks of
which are several large houses. By an opening between the roofs can be
seen the height on which stands the chateau of Arcis with its park and
gardens, its outer walls and trees which overhand the river above the
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