et of the Cis-tercian builders, who, in the severity of their 275 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine rule, frowned down all decorative effects thatbordered upon the frivolous. These windows at Altenburg, being the bestexamples of their kind, are the distinct artisticattraction of the great abbey,… … 276 XXVII AIX - LA - CHAPELLE As Rouen in Normandy was known as thecity of the Conqueror, so Aix-la-Chapellebecame known, at a much earlier date, as thecity of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was more than a conqueror;he was a statesman, with a boundless ambition.He founded the German Empire, andchanged…
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