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Peculiarityof Frenchdomes3 8 FRANCE AQUITAINE [CH. xixif not imported from Constantinople was certainly cut byGreek chisels.It is confirmed also by the peculiaruse made of thedomes in other churches of this district, where they aretreated rather as mere vaults, often repeated severaltimes in a row, instead of forming a central dominantfeature like the singledomes of Salonica and Constantinopleround which the church was squarely grouped ;Fig. 76.nor are they raised on drums or pierced with windows asin the later Byzantine examples, but are often like othervaults covered with wooden roofs, making no showexternally. At Souillac, Le Puy, and Angoul6me a singlecupola emerges as a lantern above the crossing the rest;are concealed by the roof. At Solignac, Cognac, and