Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 244
nemies encamj)ed below thetown. Fortunately this very temporal use of the holy edificedid not entail its destruction, and it has withstood muchbetter than its town, the perils of war and of time; for withthe fall of the Armagnacs, Lectoure suffered greatly. LouisXIs first army entered after eight… … THE SINGLE TOWER. —LECTOURE. Lectoure. 225 booting general might have done, not with the suave andlofty graciousness of a lordly prelate. Unlike the tribes wholeft her safe on her high hill, unlike the military priest whosacked her cruelly, modern life has left Lectoure in lonelyisolation. Up the…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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