. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . , has been wholly restored ; but on the west porch,over the main entrance, a well-preserved, Romanesquerelief of the Last Supper may be noted. The admir-able frescoes in the interior by Flandrin are among thenoblest achievements of modern French art. Part ofthe Abbots Palace of the sixteenth century is leftstanding in the Rue de IAbbaye, but of all the fortress-monastery, with its immense domain ot lands andcloisters, walls and towers, over which those puissantlords held sway, only a memory remains : the wall
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . , has been wholly restored ; but on the west porch,over the main entrance, a well-preserved, Romanesquerelief of the Last Supper may be noted. The admir-able frescoes in the interior by Flandrin are among thenoblest achievements of modern French art. Part ofthe Abbots Palace of the sixteenth century is leftstanding in the Rue de IAbbaye, but of all the fortress-monastery, with its immense domain ot lands andcloisters, walls and towers, over which those puissantlords held sway, only a memory remains : the wallswere razed in the seventeenth century and replaced byartizans houses. The Rue du Four recalls the old feudaloven. Lower down the Rue Bonaparte is the little visitedbut most interesting Ecole des Beaux Arts, once themonastery of the Petits Augustins, now rich in examplesof early Renaissance architecture and other artistictreasures. It is a great teaching centre, and trainssome fifteen hundred students in sculpture, painting andarchitecture. Westward of this, the artists quarter of. COUR nu DRAOON.
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