Abstract
The replacement of compound piers with round piers in the grand arcades of churches took place between the early 12th and early 13th centuries in the Ile-de-France. The purpose of this article is to verify the assertion that such pier replacements caused the elimination of the need for ressauts at the back of vaulting shafts, thinned the vaulting shafts themselves, and effected an over-all decrease in the total volume of elements projecting from the nave wall surfaces based upon research of a significant number of extant monuments. The resultant changes in the vaulting shaft areas advanced a linear quality that led to the formation of the gothic diaphanous nave wall.
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