. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE NAVE AND CHOIR IN 1919 110 The Tapestries The priceless tapestries which, before the war, decorated the tribunals ofthe side-aisles, were saved. Those given 1>\ Robert de Lenoncourt and restored by Les Gobelins, are rich in composition and decorative effect. In an architectural frame of the Renaissance period, the) represent the following legendary scenes from thelife I St. Remi. the costumes belonging to the period of Francois I.:— 1. The blind hermit Muiiiamis visits the new-born Remi, who, touching himwith his lingers wet with milk, resto
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE NAVE AND CHOIR IN 1919 110 The Tapestries The priceless tapestries which, before the war, decorated the tribunals ofthe side-aisles, were saved. Those given 1>\ Robert de Lenoncourt and restored by Les Gobelins, are rich in composition and decorative effect. In an architectural frame of the Renaissance period, the) represent the following legendary scenes from thelife I St. Remi. the costumes belonging to the period of Francois I.:— 1. The blind hermit Muiiiamis visits the new-born Remi, who, touching himwith his lingers wet with milk, restores his sight. 2. The hermit St. Remi. called by the people to the bishopric, receives themitre. 3. Four miracles are performed by the saint: he extinguishes a fire lightedby demons in the city; he restores life to a girl; he is served at table byangels; when wine ran short at the table of his cousin Celsa, he blessed anempty cask, which was immediately filled. 1. The Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis instructed and baptized by Remi;. THE TENTH TAPESTRY OF ST. REMI, DAMAGED BY SHELL-SPLINTERS ON SEPT. 4, 1914 (See description pp. 110-111.) Ill the miraculous dove and an angel bring from heaven the Sacred Ampulla andthe fleur-de-lys scutcheon. 5. Remi gives Clovis a cask of wine, telling him that he will always bevictorious so long as the cask remains full; a miller who refused to give hismill to the Church, sees his wheel turn the wrong way and his mill fall down;St. Genebaud, Bishop of Soissons, punished by Remi for his sins, is after-wards delivered from his fetters by the saint. 6. The miracle of Hydrissen : Remi raises a man from the dead, who con-firms his wish to leave a portion of his wealth to the Church, to the confusionof his son-in-law who contested the will. 7. Remi contemplating a heap of corn which he had collected to provideagainst famine, and which some drunkards had burnt. At a Council, Remiparalyses the tongue of a heretic priest, and then restores speech to him aft
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