. Rheims and the battles for its possession . In the centre: The Theatre. On the left: The Grand Hotel. In centre of Square: Statue of Joan-of-Arc. 63 Looking towards the Cathedral, thetourist will see on the right the ruinsof the Hotel du Lion dOr and of theHotel de la Maison Rouge. The latter was completely the door was the inscription :In the year 1429, at the consecration ofCharles VII., in this hostelry—then calledthe Striped Ass—the father andmother of Jeanne dArcq were lodged atthe expense of the Municipality. Inreality only the father of Joan-of-Arclodged there. It was
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . In the centre: The Theatre. On the left: The Grand Hotel. In centre of Square: Statue of Joan-of-Arc. 63 Looking towards the Cathedral, thetourist will see on the right the ruinsof the Hotel du Lion dOr and of theHotel de la Maison Rouge. The latter was completely the door was the inscription :In the year 1429, at the consecration ofCharles VII., in this hostelry—then calledthe Striped Ass—the father andmother of Jeanne dArcq were lodged atthe expense of the Municipality. Inreality only the father of Joan-of-Arclodged there. It was at the Hotel du Lion dOr{photo opposite) and at the Grand Hotel(No. 4 in the Rue Libergier, which opensout in front of the statue of Joan-of-Arc Ithat the Field-Marshal French stayedin August, 1914, and later General vonZuchow, commanding the Saxon troopswhich entered Rheims on September 4,1914. On the right of the Cathedral arethe ruins of the Archbishops Palace(see plan, p. 33). A general view of themis seen in the photograph on p. INNER COURTYARD OF THE LION dor hotel {Cliche ) The Archbishops Palace Of the three buildings which surrounded every Cathedral in the MiddleAges—the bishops palace, the cloister of the canons, and the house set apartfor the sick and poor (Hotel-Dieu)-—only the archbishops palace existed atRheims in 1914. It extended all along the south lateral facade of theCathedral, on the site of the ancient abode of St. Nicaise, which had replaceda Roman palace. Of the ancient building erected by the successors ofSt. Nicaise down to the 13th century, there remained only the graceful two-storied chapel, doubtless contemporary with the chevet of the round entrance tower, known as Eons tower (from the name of theheretic who was imprisoned there in the 12th century), and the great bronzestag placed in the middle of the courtyard by Archbishop Samson in the11th century, still existed in the 17th century, but about that time the onewas d
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