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Romance of the French abbeys (1905)

Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 502

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hich from under the eavesspouted water upon unwary passers it wasclaimed represented evil spirits driven fromthe sacred edifice, but the devils reappearedagain in the beautiful cloister and took pos-session of the capitals of the columns. SaintBernard alone thought of satirising thesegrotesques:… … CLOISTER OF THE ABBEY OF FONTEFROIDE.By permission of Paul Robert.

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