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Identifier: francefromseatos00riggrich (find matches)
Title: France from sea to sea
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Riggs, Arthur Stanley
Subjects: France -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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urch in a cocked hat, tossedthem carelessly to either side of the door, jerkedthe pall back into a messy heap, and motioned thebearers to take the coffin in. It was a poor thing,pathetically cheap in the revealing sunshine, and themen handled it like so much brick. On one side ablind beggar, whose bald crown was sunburned a deeptan, held out his hat to it; on the other, a paralytic,steadied by his daughter, also begged for alms fromears forever deaf. How short a shrift is given the poor, in either lifeor death. The sad little crowd filed blinking outalmost before we thought the service well begun.Backing his horse up to the curb like a coalman,the driver stood at his head while the casket bumpednoisily in, and the priests, evidently in a hurry, ledthe way off at a smart pace, while Life in the Placeflowed on, unheeding and unceasing, totally indiffer-ent to its twin brother. Death. After the color of the city, its most strikingfeature is the way in which some of its streets mount (78)
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AMONG THE DOMES the hill upon incHned embankments. Cresting thehighest point is the stern, somber Cathedral, a fineGothic building, begun in the middle of the thirteenthcentury and never finished, though in the nineteenththe eminent architect, M. Viollet-le-Duc, completedthe western fa9ade with its two towers. The highaltar, bishops throne and choir railings were alsodesigned by him, and testify not only to his skill,but also to the fact that good work could be donein the nineteenth century. But it is the Auvergnat church we care most tosee here, a development of the Romanesque. Animportant and typical example of this native archi-tecture is the church of Notre Dame du Port. Toreach it we pass through the Place Poterne, a pleas-ant, shady square on the brow of the hill, whencefine views of the Monts Dome spread away for miles.There is no rush or bustle of life here, as in thebusy Place Jaude; the Poterne is rather a quiet,homely sitting-room for all the people of the neigh-borhood—n

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