. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE HOTEL DE LA SALLE On the left : the Carriage Entrance -with Caryatids : Adam and Eve. 75. THE COURTYARDOF THE HOTELDE LA SALLE The gracefulturret haspartiallycollapsed After turning to the right, on leaving the Rue Colbert, and quite close to theSquare, at No. 4 in the Rue de VArbalete, is the house, dating from the middleof the 16th century, where J. B. de la Salle was born. Although this house suffered from the bombardments of 1918, its front ispractically intact. It is the finest Renaissance front in Rheims, after that ofLe Vergeurs House {s
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE HOTEL DE LA SALLE On the left : the Carriage Entrance -with Caryatids : Adam and Eve. 75. THE COURTYARDOF THE HOTELDE LA SALLE The gracefulturret haspartiallycollapsed After turning to the right, on leaving the Rue Colbert, and quite close to theSquare, at No. 4 in the Rue de VArbalete, is the house, dating from the middleof the 16th century, where J. B. de la Salle was born. Although this house suffered from the bombardments of 1918, its front ispractically intact. It is the finest Renaissance front in Rheims, after that ofLe Vergeurs House {see p. 85). The carriage entrance is flanked with two life-size caryatids, popularly calledAdam and Eve, on account of their nudity. Along the first story runs a broadfrieze ornamentated with trophies of arms and a shield of unknown two windows of this story a niche, resting on a console, is crownedwith a canopy. The shops on the ground-floor somewhat spoilt the generallook of the building. The interior of the house was less interesting than thefront. In the courtyard is a strikingly graceful three-story turret (p
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