Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942 · Boston, Little, Brown, and Company · leaf 52
a cathedral church on the site. Childe-bert, the successor of Clovis, the real founderof the Frankish kingdom in Gaul, built a secondcathedral on the northern side of the He de laCite, and dedicated it to Saint Etienne. It isnow one of the finest specimens in Europe ofdecorated Gothic architecture.… … The Last Days of Napoleon at St. Helena. Vicenzo Vela PARIS, THE BEAUTIFUL of the Virgin Mary. In the niches above thedoors are twenty-eight modern statues of kings.The statues of Adam and Eve and the centralfigure of the Virgin, above the niches, are byGeoffrey Dechaume; the two kneeling angels…
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