 If 816 817 we should lose them now, as we almost lost Louvain, standing in the midst of the roaring flame and drifting smoke, while tall churches and rich universities and fair old houses crumbled and died around it, what should we not lose? And the churches,...  Heart of Europe - Page 8by Ralph Adams Cram - 1915 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
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...Oudenarde. Architecture has gone far from the Salle Synodale of Sens, and the Merveille of Mont St. Michel, and it has not gone altogether well, but how significant...think of them, with St. Pierre of Louvain and St. Rombault of Malines still smoking with their dying fires, while piece by piece the calcined stone falls... | |
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