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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France : including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 320

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de. The Traveller, for whom the sombremajesty of this old wall has a mysterious charm, hadfound a convenient corner on one of the benches andwas trying to sketch details which he might later beglad to have for memorys sake. As he awkwardlytried to force his pencil to make the necessary lines, hewas… … 19 289 Paris 291 everybodys vision, the first story of the three portals.Even the statues on the door-piers are as different andas interesting as people. In the Southern door, thereis a long, attenuated figure of Saint-Marcel, almost asarchaic as his story. This holy Bishop lived in a timewhen…

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