. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. ot and warehouse for histreasures, and a few unfrocked monks who had remained in thebuilding helped him in his generous task. At first the seizingof objects took place in a regular manner in the name of thenation, but in 1793 the rage of destruction set in, and in orderto preserve bronze from the melting-pot and marble from theiconoclasts hammer, Lenoir had brought hurriedly and pell-mell to the Petits Augustins pictures, statues, monuments, andprecious objects of all kinds, from the convents, monasteries, CHANTILLY 281 and churches. It was thus th
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. ot and warehouse for histreasures, and a few unfrocked monks who had remained in thebuilding helped him in his generous task. At first the seizingof objects took place in a regular manner in the name of thenation, but in 1793 the rage of destruction set in, and in orderto preserve bronze from the melting-pot and marble from theiconoclasts hammer, Lenoir had brought hurriedly and pell-mell to the Petits Augustins pictures, statues, monuments, andprecious objects of all kinds, from the convents, monasteries, CHANTILLY 281 and churches. It was thus that he succeeded in saving morethan 500 precious historical monuments, tombs of kings, andmausoleums of great families. At the time when the abbeyswere sacked and pillaged he saved 2600 pictures, a selectionfrom which subsequently formed the original nucleus of thepresent Louvre Museum; but, alas! all could not be saved, forI remember to have been shown by the venerable son of Alex-andre Lenoir receipts for 600 pictures claimed by the Revolu-. CHAPEL OF QUEEN BLANCHE. 282 ART AND CRITICISM. tionary committees, and publicly burned as souvenirs of roy-alty. Furthermore, Lenoir saved upwards of 8000 pieces, suchas manuscripts, precious books, arms, armor, and models of va-rious kinds, which have since found a resting-place in theNational Library, in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers,and in the Museum of Artillery; also quantities of Greekvases, busts, and statuettes, which were taken from the monas-teries of Sainte-Genevieve and of the Petits Peres, and whichare now in the National Library. In fact, in his depot at thePetits Augustins, Lenoir assembled an immense mass of mate-rials, which, after the restoration of peace and order, wereclassified and distributed among the various museums of Paris,while some objects were returned to their rightful owners, andothers—for instance, the tombs of the French kings—replacedin the once more respected sanctuaries of Saint-Denis orNotr
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