Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . o-day to believe it was anyof them who counseled the municipality ofParis to change the entire effect of this beau-tiful church by replacing with an empty spacewhat was once a tangled labyrinth of oldhouses. The Cathedral is still no doubt a marvel ofharmony through her lines, of majesty throughher form, of lightness through her details; but,nevertheless, the feeling that you have in look-ing at her facade from the end of a great Placemust be of a much lower order, I am sure,from that when you saw
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . o-day to believe it was anyof them who counseled the municipality ofParis to change the entire effect of this beau-tiful church by replacing with an empty spacewhat was once a tangled labyrinth of oldhouses. The Cathedral is still no doubt a marvel ofharmony through her lines, of majesty throughher form, of lightness through her details; but,nevertheless, the feeling that you have in look-ing at her facade from the end of a great Placemust be of a much lower order, I am sure,from that when you saw it at a distance ofonly a few yards. Then, as you picked yourway through the narrow streets, you camesuddenly upon her portals, set with thosefigures with grave and touching faces, whichthe high relief made seem living in the you raised your eyes slightly you saw theogivals receding in ascensions of saints andseraphim, while higher still were other fig-ures, and then columns, and open-work balus-trades, and then an immense flowering of gar-goyles and chimeras, congealed in the white. ONE OF THE GARGOYLES ON NOTRE DAME.
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