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Title: Vanished halls and cathedrals of France
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950
Subjects: Cities and towns Cathedrals
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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all France. Rumors have appeared in print during the last twoyears, that this whole collection has been carefully packedand sent to Berlin. At this date of writing (May, 1917)Lille has not yet been evacuated by the Germans, andwe are told that none of the buildings has been destroyedsave some unimportant ones near the railway station.Just what will be the fate of the town may be conjecturedwhen one reflects upon what happened to Noyon, toRheims, to Soissons, and to St. Quentin, when the in-vaders were no longer able to hold them. Let us pray that the Alusee Wicar may be spared, bysome happy chance. Wicar was an artist who died in1834, who made a great deal of money by his work, andwhose real hobby was the collection of the drawings bygreat masters, including nearly two hundred and fiftydrawings by Michelangelo, sixty-eight by Raphael, anda large number by Francia, Titian and others, besidesendless examples of the Renaissance. Wandering about in Lille one came upon some hand- 48 \^VS*
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irm^^^^cg^H LILLE some buildings behind the Hotel de Ville in the Rue duPalais, which proved to be those of the Military Hospital,formerly a Jewish college. Here was an ancient chapelof the seventeenth century, containing a remarkablealtar, and some huge dark paintings which may have beengood, but the light was so dim, and they were hung sohigh that it was impossible to examine them. Continu-ing the wandering one reached the fine old town gate,the ancient Porte de la Barre, in a good state of preser-vation. There were a number of these gates. The oldPorte de Paris was part of the fortifications, and builtin the form of a sort of triumphal arch to the honor ofLouis XVL Some quaint streets as yet untouched by themarch of commercialism, led from here into busy thor-oughfares teeming with life and activity. One, runningeastwards from the Porte de Paris, passed between asquare and the old Hotel du Genie, and this led one tothe Gothic church of St. Sauveur, noteworthy for itsdouble aisles,

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