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...Nous ne trouvons pas d'exemple complet de portes de villes ou châteaux avant le commencement du XII^e siècle. Un de ces exemples, parvenu jusqu'à nous sans altération aucune, se voit au château de Carcassonne, et il remonte à 1120 environ. Nous donnons (fig. 3) le plan de cette porte à rez-de-chaussée. On arrive à l'entrée par un pont défendu lui-même par une large barbacane bâtie au XIII^e siècle...

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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