Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . al inautumn of 1914, said M. Dalimier, but we were un-able to begin work without an agreement with the mili-tary authorities, and they begged us to do nothing. Theypointed out that the Cathedral was still under Germanfire, that from Nogent to La Bassee, where the batteriesfiring on the town were installed, everything that passedcould be distinctly seen by the Germans, and that work-men on the Cathedral would therefore be sure to be ob-served and fired upon. The great interior was four hundred and sixty-six feetlong and one hundred and twenty-one feet h
Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . al inautumn of 1914, said M. Dalimier, but we were un-able to begin work without an agreement with the mili-tary authorities, and they begged us to do nothing. Theypointed out that the Cathedral was still under Germanfire, that from Nogent to La Bassee, where the batteriesfiring on the town were installed, everything that passedcould be distinctly seen by the Germans, and that work-men on the Cathedral would therefore be sure to be ob-served and fired upon. The great interior was four hundred and sixty-six feetlong and one hundred and twenty-one feet high. Bothnave and transepts have aisles. Eight bays were in thenave, and each transept projected to the depth of a singlebay. A triforium was above the aisles, and eight ex-quisite chapels radiated from the choir. The great capitals were covered with beautiful sculp-ture, beggaring description. Over the large west portalwas shown the Martyrdom of St. Nicaise, and over thewhole west wall was a multitude of small statues in 254 -rrr, 4w ^1. RHEIMS niches ending in a display of the Massacre of the Inno-cents. A myriad of these statues filled the whole angels too adorned the buttresses of the choirchapels. Rich tapestries, fourteen in number, the giftof Robert de Lenoncourt in 1530, hung on the chapelwalls, and there were two magnificent pieces given byCardinal Lorraine in 1570, called the Tapisseries dufort roi Clovis, and others from Archbishop Henri deLorraine in 1633, called the Perpersack. Some Gobe-lins, also, designed in 1848 by Raffaelle, were hung large organ was dated 1481, and designed byOudin Hestre, and in the chapel of St. Jean was the thir-teenth century monument of Hugues Libergier, thearchitect of St. Nicaise. (This is buried in the ashes, andis said to be uninjured.) The Treasury included many reliquaries and holyobjects of priceless value, such as the reliquary of Sanson(twelfth century) ; that of SS. Peter and Paul (four-teenth century);
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