Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 298
e Seventeenth Century by Claude Auvey, who beforebecoming Bishop of Coutances, was the famous singer ofLa Sainte-Chapelle, whom Boileau took for the hero of hisLutin. The porches have very {zw statues and bas-reliefs;the sculpture of the whole edifice is above all else decora-tive and, moreover,… … COUTANCES CATHEDRAL 221 is difficult to admire from close range the harmonious pro-portions. Above the transept, there rises an enormous octagonaltower, called le Plomb^ and you can ascend the cupola whichit covers to appreciate the interior of the Cathedral, and, onthe terrace that it surmounts,…
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