Wanderings by the Loire . THE PATACHE. 11 must return into the hum, the crowd, the shock ofmen, into the world where the sun scorches whilehe enlightens, and the villain stabs while he smiles :but he—that calm, dark, silent, mystic guest of thechurch—his wanderings are over; he has reached thebourn of his pilgrimage; he has arrived at a place—the enviable yet dreaded destination of all—where thesun shines not, where the winter chills not, where thewicked cease from troubling, and the weary are atrest! The cathedral, called the church of Sainte Croix,was founded in the thirteenth century, ruine
Wanderings by the Loire . THE PATACHE. 11 must return into the hum, the crowd, the shock ofmen, into the world where the sun scorches whilehe enlightens, and the villain stabs while he smiles :but he—that calm, dark, silent, mystic guest of thechurch—his wanderings are over; he has reached thebourn of his pilgrimage; he has arrived at a place—the enviable yet dreaded destination of all—where thesun shines not, where the winter chills not, where thewicked cease from troubling, and the weary are atrest! The cathedral, called the church of Sainte Croix,was founded in the thirteenth century, ruined by theCalvinists in the sixteenth, and rebuilt by HenriQuatre, who laid the corner-stone in person, in ancient towers remained till about a century ago,when they were demolished to make room for the new,which, with the portico, also a modern erection, arethe finest parts of an edifice supposed to be one of themost beautiful specimens of ecclesiastical architecturein France. A short distance from the Sai
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