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Vanished halls and cathedrals of France (1917)

Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 308

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nd sixty-six feetlong and one hundred and twenty-one feet high. Bothnave and transepts have aisles. Eight bays were in thenave, and each transept projected to the depth of a singlebay. A triforium was above the aisles, and eight ex-quisite chapels radiated from the choir. The great capitals were… … RHEIMS niches ending in a display of the Massacre of the Inno-cents. A myriad of these statues filled the whole church.Adoring angels too adorned the buttresses of the choirchapels. Rich tapestries, fourteen in number, the giftof Robert de Lenoncourt in 1530, hung on the chapelwalls, and there were…

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