Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 265
her gates. Crossly ignorant of art, nothing of beauty that .stood in his path escaped fire and a.xe; 238 Languedoc. and smoke-marks along the arena walls show to-day hownarrowly they escaped the irreparable destruction whichhad wiped out the Forum, the Capitol, the Temple, theBaths, and all the… … an amphitheatre which rivals the art of the coliseum.—NiMES. associations, was used as a stable, a store-house, and, puri-fied by proper ceremonials, it even became a Christianchurch. The Amphitheatre has had a still stranger des-tiny. To a mediaeval Viscount, it was naturally incon-ceivable as a…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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