Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

“ LOGE (literally: "cabin") Part or portion of gallery, dependent on a public or private building, high above external ground-level and opening largely on the outside, without windows or closings with residence. The loge resembles on the one hand the gantry, other with the bretèche; however it should be distinguished from these two members of architecture. The loge differs from the gantry in what it is high above the public highway, has a particular entry and that its length is limited, while the gantry is a covered gallery of which the length is unspecified. ”

“ The loge holding at houses differs from the bretèche in this important point that it is opened with the bad weather, apart from the apartments, while the bretèche is closed by panes or shutters and adds at piece-rates an appendix projecting on the public highway. The French architecture of the Middle Ages hardly admitted the cabin but in the southernmost provinces, where it could have a certain utility. In our climates, one always preferred a part closed in these rooms open to all winds, if frequent in the Italian cities of the 13th and 14th centuries. ”

“ The large covered stage that we give here as a cabin held place of small room of not-lost. We have in Paris a very-remarkable monument by the style of its architecture and which was treated with the manner of the Italian cabins, it is the monument which one made the fountain of the Innocent ones. ”