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...Au XV^e siècle, les crédences près des autels se composent parfois d'une petite pile ou colonnette portant une tablette circulaire ou polygonale (2). Mais ces exemples sont rares, car la plupart de ces objets ont été détruits lorsqu'au siècle dernier on eut la funeste idée de garnir les chapelles de nos églises de boiseries peintes en blanc et or, comme on le faisait pour les boudoirs à la mode d'alors...

This image comes from Dictionary of French Architecture from 11th to 16th Century (1856) by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879).

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