. Rheims and the battles for its possession . wereproclaimed king, and where several archbishops were elected, only a fewvestiges remain. Damaged by the fires of 1098, 1481, and 1751, it was com-pletely destroyed by the great conflagration of January 15, 1774. The presentabbey, rebuilt by Duroche, the Kings architect, was scarcely finished whenthe Revolution broke out. Incendiary bombs dropped by German aeroplanes in August, 1916, de-stroyed most of the buildings. The monumental facade which faces the Court of Honour is Louis XVI. instyle. The second court, that behind the main buildings, is b
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . wereproclaimed king, and where several archbishops were elected, only a fewvestiges remain. Damaged by the fires of 1098, 1481, and 1751, it was com-pletely destroyed by the great conflagration of January 15, 1774. The presentabbey, rebuilt by Duroche, the Kings architect, was scarcely finished whenthe Revolution broke out. Incendiary bombs dropped by German aeroplanes in August, 1916, de-stroyed most of the buildings. The monumental facade which faces the Court of Honour is Louis XVI. instyle. The second court, that behind the main buildings, is bordered by a cloisterbuilt by the Rheims architect, Nicolas Bonhomme, in the first part of the18th century, in place of the 13th and 14th century cloister destroyed in buttresses of the side which abuts on the church of St. Remi, and thoseof the opposite side, are 12th century. The marble fountain with bronze furnishings, in the centre of the court,was formerly in the Place St. Nicaise. It was erected in 1750 from designsby THE CLOISTKK AND FOUNTAIN OF THE HOTEL-DIEU 118
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