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laborieuses, complexes, tourmentées: superpositions, retraits multiples, labyrinthes, galeries basses à jour, tours dentelées, pyramides à étages et à flèches innombrables; une profusion extrême d'ornements et de sculptures, des effets constants de clair et de sombre qui enrichissent les ensembles sans en altérer la majesté, et s'harmonisent merveilleusement avec la lumière intense et la végétation luxuriante des régions tropicales : c'est, en un mot, une autre forme du beau.
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mazes, galleries shaded from daylight, jagged towers, pyramids with countless stories and arrows, a great profusion of ornaments and sculptures, constant effects of light and shadow that enrich the whole without altering its majesty, and blend beautifully with the intense light and lush tropical vegetations: it is, in short, another form of beauty.
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The expedition was plagued by disasters and difficulties, including many miles of wading barefoot through knee-deep mud infested with leeches. Nevertheless, the team surveyed and mapped 6,000 km, charting the Mekong's course from its mouth in present-day
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The sight of these strange ruins struck me, too, with a keen astonishment, I admired the bold and grandiose design of these monuments no less than the perfect harmony of all their parts. Khmer art, issuing from the mixture of India and China, purified, ennobled by artists whom one might call the
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Il s'écarte, il est vrai, de ces grandes oeuvres classiques du bassin de la Méditerranée qui pen- dant longtemps ont seules captivé notre admiration : ce ne sont plus ces colonnades majestueuses, ces grandes surfaces calmes de la Grèce ou de l'Egypte; ce sont au contraire des formes
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It differs, indeed, from those great classics of the
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Vous avez pu voir, Monsieur le
Ministre, dans l'exposition qui a eu lieu au Palais de l'Industrie en janvier et février 1878 une partie de ces séries. L'Asie y était représentée par des envois nombreux et variés de MM. Delaporte, Harmand, de Ujfalvy, Lansberg, La
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pourrait appeler les Athéniens de l'Extrême-Orient, est resté en effet comme la plus belle expression du génie humain dans cette vaste partie de l'Asie qui s'étend de l'lndus au
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Thailand, Laos, and Burma into China. At the end of the journey, Delaporte returned to France, where he was promoted to the rank of ship's lieutenant and awarded the
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Athenians of the Far East, has remained the most beautiful expression of human genius in this vast part of Asia that extends from the Indus to the
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between 1866 and 1868. Delaporte, a young naval officer, was chosen because of his talent in drawing to accompany them through what was then
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