Book: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3
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The western wall of the interior is faced with niches, in which the
statues seem to emerge from a cloud of gloom. At one time tombs of the
most magnificent sort crowded the aisles, enshrining the relics of saints
and bishops, but during the raging of the Terror the Revolutionists
violated these tombs, seizing their treasures, breaking down with ax and
hammer their carvings. But, after all, the church of Notre Dame of Rheims
does not seem to have suffered very much loss from the clearing away of
these obstructions to the vista of her arcades, which now depend for their
solemn beauty upon the simplicity and dignity of their lines and
proportions, the effect of their windows, and the religious gloom which
lingers in their lofty recesses.
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