The cathedral of St. Etienne at Bourges has:
A) features similar to the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Chartres.
B) double aisles that flank the nave and continue in uninterrupted arcs around the choir.
C) wall buttresses linked together horizontally by iron tie-rods.
D) vaulting elaborated with extra ribs, called tierceron and lierne.
E) window tracery worked into trefoil (three-part) or quatrefoil (four-part) cusped shapes.
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