Anne F. Rockwell
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LOCATION: Old Greenwich, CT, United States
Freelance writer and illustrator. Author of Glass, Stones and Crown: The Abbé Suger and the Building of St. Denis and others.
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Suger was a French abbot and adviser to kings Louis VI and VII whose supervision of the rebuilding of the abbey church of Saint-Denis was instrumental in the development of the Gothic style of architecture. Suger was born of peasant parents. As a child he showed unusual intelligence, and in 1091 he…
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