Summer holidays among the glories of France, her cathedrals and churches (1902)
Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis), 1861-1916 · London, T. B. Bumpus · leaf 180
ll in some point or otherchallenge the attention. Unsupported by pillars, the author ofthis marvellous _/«^/rests beneath it, sans craindre detre ecrase. The transepts and short nave of the Madeleine are very earlyFirst Pointed, the apsidal choir Flamboyant, but neither is a verygood… … .ifB^.!.H. ^i ^m^Mmim TROVES: ROOD-LOFT IN THE MAnF.I.ElNF. early morning sun streaming through the storied panes of thelantern-like apse, throwing the choicest hues upon the surroundingstonework, is one which can never be effaced from the tablets ofmemory. Begun in 1262 by Pope Urban IV, son of a…
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