Turn-of-the-century gothic art historian Camille Enlart examined French architecture and fashion in his three volume work Manuel d’Archéologie Francaise. Published in two books, the first volume looks specifically at French religious architecture and continues Enlart’s career assertion that the cultural vacuum created by the decline of the Roman empire facilitated the insertion of French forms and themes into Mediterranean art and architecture. Enlart produces a formal survey analyzing various architectural elements, building plans, and construction practices to discern a more precise relationship between forms emerging from classical modes and those of Gallic (and likely Celtic) provenance. The resulting positivist history suggests that the Carolingian epoch represents a decided shift in the dominant aesthetic vocabulary in this part of Europe. Each book in Enlart’s Manuel d’Archéologie Française includes a number of sketches, plans, and photographs of various architectural elements, construction practices, buildings, sculptures, and costumes. Comparative series play a significant role in each work providing information about the variety and evolution certain architectural objects.

T. I A: Architecture religieuse, 1927

T. I B: Architecture Civile, preface par M. P. Leon, directeur des Beaux Arts, 1929

T. I Γ: Table Alphabetique et Analytique des Matieres par Remy Delauney, 1924

T. II A: Archicture religieuse,  Periode Francaise, Dite Gothique, Style Flamboyand, Rennaisance, 1929

T. II B:  Architecture civile et militaire. Architecture militaire et navalle, 1932

T. III: Costumes, 1927

2nd hand, very good condition