Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 78
the grandeur of its size.In cold—perhaps futile—comparison, it has not thefaultless unity of Reims and it is without the surpass-ing inspiration of Beauvais, but it has its own splen-dour which no critical contrast can impair, and it isone of the most impressive among French Cathedrals. Behind the… … THE AISLE OF THIS ORIGINAL AND NOBLE EDIFICE. —CHARTRES. 55 Soissons 57 ness and barren monotony. When the summer sunshines, there is a suggestion of the new-made metro-pohs of a Colony, and when it rains, a pall of melan-choly falls over the town. Even the little river,which lends a touch of the…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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