English: Identifier: rheimsbattlesfor00cler

Title: Rheims and the battles for its possession Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields Reims (France) -- Guidebooks Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand,France : Michelin & cie. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: by quatrefoils and trefoil archings. Its harmonious gracefulnessand seeming lightness, in spite of the great thickness of its border (about7 ft.), and mullions (about 2 ft. 6 in.), are very striking. The stained-glass, which, with the stonework, formed a harmonious whole, was restored in i lern times. The subject represented was: The Virgin surrounded by angels, kings and patriarchs. The fire of 1914 destroyed the stained glass. The side-doors have only a quatrefoil rose-window (sec pp. 25 and 34),and their framework of niches consists only of four rows of two niches each.However, two lines of niches, in which are statues in demi-relief, form thecontour of the arches which frame their top. The subjects of the sculptures are allied, in the case of each door, to thoseof the outer decoration, i.e. The Life of St. Stephen. The wooden doors and their tambours were destroyed by the fire of Sep-tember 19, 1914, which also disfigured or destroyed the statues framing them(see photos above). ..

Text Appearing After Image: INTERIOR OF THE NAVE IN 1919 The Great Nave The fire of September 19. 1914, destroyed the framework of the Nave andits 15th century lead roof. In the following years a number of shells piercedthe vaulting, without, however, damaging its vital parts. It will be possibleto restore it. It seems to be clearly established that although the first four bays werebuilt later than the others, the nave as a whole, like that of the Cathedral ofAmiens, was completely finished before 1300 a.d. Vaulted throughout ondiagonal ribs, the nave, which is perfectly regular, has three stories: the low-est, formed of great arches, rests on massive pillars; the triforium, formedof two, four, five, or six arcades, extends round the entire building; the hightwin-bay windows are surmounted with a six-leaved rose-window. The pillars, which have been likened to a row of antique columns, arecomposed of a great cylindrical shaft, reinforced by four smaller engagedcolumns, standing on an octagonal base. The pillars w

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