Lungo la Francia del fiume di romanticismo: . enant dune la principale glaive du sacrificio, tandis queIautre est principale posee sur la tete dIsaac debout devantlui ; ONU ange retient figlio reggiseni. Vis-a-vis est David avecsa harpe ; les autres personnages sont sans attributs. . Il transetto principale è separata da sixarcades formando il coro, dal transetto secondario.nel primo transetto, sotto la torre centrale, è thetomb di Philippe I (le Bel), che è morto in 1108 - arecumbent statua del re reposing su quattro leoni.Gli stalli del coro, che data dal 1413, sono extremelybeautiful. Dolorose escrescenze, a causa di mod

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Along France's river of romance: . enant dune main la glaive du sacrifice, tandis queIautre main est posee sur la tete dIsaac debout devantlui ; un ange retient son bras. Vis-a-vis est David avecsa harpe ; les autres personnages sont sans attributs. . The principal transept is separated by sixarcades forming the choir, from the secondary transept.In the first transept, under the central tower, is thetomb of Philippe I (le Bel), who died in 1108 — arecumbent statue of the King reposing on four lions.The choir stalls, which date from 1413, are extremelybeautiful. Painful excrescences, due to modern badtaste, the church has in plenty—the decorations of theorgan for instance—but they are powerless to spoil thegeneral purity of its effect. The sacristy containsseveral treasures, including some carved woodworkgiven by Cardinal Richelieu, the Rosary of Anne ofAustria, and many valuable reliquaries. A crypt datingfrom the beginning of the eleventh century extendsunder the choir and contains the heart of St. Benoit, t /. M 162 THE LOIRE enclosed in a magnificent modern reliquary in theRomanesque style, the stone tomb of an abbot ofthe seventh century and a carved wooden altar givenby Richelieu. The church of Germigny-des-Pres, a small village ofabout five hundred inhabitants three miles to thenorth-west, is hardly less elaborate than the church ofSt. Benoit, though nowadays far less interesting. Forstudents of architecture and learned pundits it is still, however, a place of pilgrimage ; for imaginative peoplethe lust of French restorers has turned it merely into apublic building. The original church was built in 806by Theodolphus, bishop of Orleans, the friend ofCharlemagne and one of the shining lights of the DarkAges. After an existence of a thousand years, wars, the ravages of the Loire and the deflowering hand oftime had brought it to such a condition that a collapseof the structure seemed inevitable. A restoration wasdecided upon in 1868, a ruthless restoration whi

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