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Title: Paris as seen and described by famous writers ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, (from old catalog) ed. and tr
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in 1508, and finished in 1522. The figureof Saint James upon the little turret, and his friends theEvangelistic animals, by Rauch, were thrown down in 1793;but in 1836, when the municipality saved the tower bypurchasing it, the statues were repaired and replaced. Thechurch contained many tombs and slabs, some of whichhave found a home in the Hotel Cluny. One of the mostfamous persons buried at Saint-Jacques was NicholasFlamel, a member of the University, and librarian, whodied in 1417, leaving large sums of money to the church.His effigy, and that of his wife, were to be seen kneelingat the Virgins feet in the tympanum of the porch. Hewas venerated as their patron by the alchemists, for having,as was affirmed, discovered the philosophers stone; andseveral times his house in the Rue des £crivains was rum-maged in order to find some indication of his secret. Hisfuneral tablet has the following epitaph engraven upon it,and is numbered ninety-two in the collection of the Hotel Cluny: 266
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