[Mansfield, Milburg Francisco], 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page and company · leaf 284
nof the ancient ecclesiastical province of Vi-enne. To-day it is a suffragan of Cham-be ry. The rather ordinary cathedral of St. Pierrehas no great interest as an architectural type,and is possessed of no embellishments of arank sufficiently high to warrant remark. Itdates only from the sixteenth… … XVIII CATHEDRALE DE CHAMBERY The city of Chambery in the eighteenthcentury must have been a veritable hotbed ofaristocracy. A French writer of that day hasindeed stated that it is the winter residenceof all the aristocracy of Savoie; . . . withtwenty thousand francs one could live engrand seigneur;…
Cathedrals
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
