International studio . above: cathedral of reims. below: CAFi; des fiLus Book Review chapel window stares blank and appealing at theCathedral towers. Weeds choke the pavementin the courtyard, and in the garden the sunglitters and sparkles over trees and grass. For the painter there are landscapes^chaotic,tragic, pathetic: the market with its boxes ofcamembert, its riot of fresh peaches and plums,and bouquets of those little ruby red radisheswhich only France can grow, and a good-naturedbutter-woman who tells us that, when the Hunscame, they had hidden in the cellar to be drivenout at night emp
International studio . above: cathedral of reims. below: CAFi; des fiLus Book Review chapel window stares blank and appealing at theCathedral towers. Weeds choke the pavementin the courtyard, and in the garden the sunglitters and sparkles over trees and grass. For the painter there are landscapes^chaotic,tragic, pathetic: the market with its boxes ofcamembert, its riot of fresh peaches and plums,and bouquets of those little ruby red radisheswhich only France can grow, and a good-naturedbutter-woman who tells us that, when the Hunscame, they had hidden in the cellar to be drivenout at night empty-handed into the Ardennesto cry of hunger—and all about the marketare only broken walls. Only at one corner atthe opening of the Street of the Elect, hassprung up anew upon its ancient site the littleBar of the Elect, with its diminutive tricolour,proud and triumphant in the surrounding chaos^for in the rue des Elus there reigns stark ruin,and not one house remains. One may well ask,who and where to-day are the ele
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