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Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 97

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heavy rounded wallsand safely narrowedwindows of its threeapses, and behind ihemllic military omen of thesevere, rectangulartower. High in everyone of its four sides,seaward and land-ward, was a window,from which many awatcher must havelooked and strainedanxious eyes. This isthe significance of… … THE MILITARY OMEN — THE TOWER.ANTIBES. Nice. 71 salient reminder of the ancient dignity of the church;the reminder to an indifferent generation of the days whenAntibes fulfilled to Christians the promise of her old, paganname, Antipolis, sentinel of the perilous sea. The situation of its Cathedral…

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