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George Wharton Edwards. Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France
Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France
Table of Contents
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VANISHED HALLS AND CATHEDRALS OF FRANCE
FOREWORD
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ARRAS
Town Hall Arras
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Urselines Tower: Arras
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Saint Jean Baptiste: Arras
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Château, d'Eau: Arras
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LILLE
Statue of Jeanne d'Arc: Rheims
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AMIENS
PÉRONNE
Hotel de Ville: Péroinne
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CAMBRAI, and the SMALL TOWNS
Maison du Provost: Valenciennes
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ST. QUENTIN
VALLENCIENNES
Corner of Grand' Place: Valenciennes
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SOISSONS
Cathedral: Soissons
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NOYON
Fifteenth Century House: Noyon
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L' Ancien Eveche: Noyon
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Retable in the Cathedral: Noyon
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Hotel de Ville: Noyon
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MEAUX
Old Mills: Meaux
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Cathedral: Meaux
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SENLIS
Ancient Ramparts: Senlis
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Cathedral: Senlis
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THE CHATEAU OF GÈRBÉVILLER
Chapel of the Château: Gèrbéviller
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Church: Gèrbéviller
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A HEROINE
LÂON
Château: Couey
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RHEIMS
Place du Marché: Rheims
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North Door of Cathedral: Rheims
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Apse of Cathedral: Rheims
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ST. MIHIEL
Chatel Gate: Verdun
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VERDUN
Old House on the Meuse: Verdun
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Cathedral: Verdun
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DOMREMY AND THE MAID
House of Jeanne d'Arc: Domremy
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CONCLUSION
THE END
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George Wharton Edwards
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In the cloisters, however, were rooms containing an archaeological collection of sculptures and architectural fragments, and a small collection of Flemish pictures by "Velvet" Breughel, Heemskerk, N. Maes and others, and upstairs, a fine model of an antique ship, "offered" by the States of Artois to the American Colonies in the War of Independence. One wonders why it was never sent.
At the end of a quiet street which crossed the busy and crowded Rue St. Aubert, we came upon the remains of a remarkable old town gate, and the remains, too, of the ancient fortified walls, and farther on, the dismantled citadel constructed by the great Vauban in 1670, and called "La Belle Inutile." Here in this region, called the "cockpit of Europe," for ages incessant wars have been waged, covering the land with such a network of evidences of bitterly fought rivalries as no other portion of the earth can show, and when no foreign foe had to be baffled or beaten off, then the internecine wars of clan against clan have flooded the fair land with gore and ruin.
