The skeletal framework that produced taller and broader interior spaces in French Gothic churches was made possible by __________.
A. stringcourses and pinnacles
B. wide projecting transepts
C. the heavy walls of the nave arcade
D. rib vaulting and flying buttresses
Answer: D
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