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senses, for thechurch exhaled the sweetest scent as of aromas. Ona still larger scale was the famous basilica of S. Martin builtby Bishop Perpetuus in 472 at Tours, which Gregory thehistorian and bishop himself re-built after a conflagration. 1 Plin. Ep. V. 6. Sid. Apoll. Ep. ll. ii. 2 Parietes ad… … CH. xix] FRANCE 31 It was 10 ft. lonsfer than that at Clermont, thousfh not Church of , ^ . , , . , , , S. Martin quite so loity ; it had 52 windows, 120 columns, and at Tours8 doors, and seems to have been preceded by an atriumor cloistered forecourt. Sidonius celebrates this churchin an ode of…
