. Art in France. hbouring villages,which used its stones tobuild their houses; forsakenmonasteries, where the littleflame the monks kept alivewith pious hands after thetwilight of the antiqueworld has died out slowlvin the strong light of modernday; Roman ruins, withtheir imperishable masonry,where men sometimessought shelter during thetempests of barbarism, relics the imperial majesty of which has domi-nated national history. Rome indeed still persists in our encumberedcivilisation. Often the modern engineer, as he turns over the soil,brings to light a carved altar or some mutilated head of a
. Art in France. hbouring villages,which used its stones tobuild their houses; forsakenmonasteries, where the littleflame the monks kept alivewith pious hands after thetwilight of the antiqueworld has died out slowlvin the strong light of modernday; Roman ruins, withtheir imperishable masonry,where men sometimessought shelter during thetempests of barbarism, relics the imperial majesty of which has domi-nated national history. Rome indeed still persists in our encumberedcivilisation. Often the modern engineer, as he turns over the soil,brings to light a carved altar or some mutilated head of a Gaulshaved in the Roman fashion. These old stones go to the localmuseum to join the pictures Paris sends annually to the we may traverse some twenty centuries in the quiet streets ofa French country town; twenty centuries of fine culture and activecivilisation, of life during which a society has been made and re-made continuously, and has decked its changing manifestations withnew forms of FIG. 941.— THE TRIUMPHOF THE REPUBLIC. (Place de la Nation, Paris.) 452 NATURALISM
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