Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 188
is as possible as it is improbable that the vastsums lavished on these edifices would have beenbetter spent in redeeming captives. In the problemof whether the money devoted to art had better beinvested in direct philanthropy, whether the time andlabour bestowed upon the production of a… … the . . . EDIFICE IS VERY NOBLY PLANNED. —AMIEN: i6s Amiens 167 be that many parts of many Cathedrals have beenerected with unholy money and unclean hands, it iscertain that, in the midst of the squalour and povertywhich characterised the poorer quarters of all mediaevalcities, the open door of the…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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