Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 252
Rich, transparent and highly adorned in her colossalcoquetry she seems to be awaiting a festival and is not dis-turbed because it does not take place. Charged and over-charged with sculptures and covered more than any othercathedral with sacerdotal emblems, she symbolizes the unionof king and… … REIMS CATHEDRAL REIMS CATHEDRAL 185 The little basilica where S. Remi baptized Clovis was re-placed in the Ninth Century by a church which was builtin 1211, and in the following year Archbishop Albenc Hum-bert began to raise a new cathedral upon a gigantic scale ;he pushed the work with such vigour…
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