ings, but most of them have the medieval serenity of an early Romanesque church. Some are framed in feathery spring foliage which casts phantom wisps of shadow, some lie moist and odoriferous, hidden from the sun by towering tenements, and others, like the Fontana Della Rocca, repose in the dusty wilderness of a vast piazza. Wall fountains
are strangely lacking in Viterbo, and the familiar motif of a rich cornice supported by two slender columns seems to be equally neglected. But sculptors will continue to gaze and poets will indite more stanzas to Viterbo’s placid fountains. They have a unique and undisputed place among the treasures of Italy.
NOTED FRENCH CHURCHES GO
FRANCE has only recently lost two historic churches, it is learned from news despatches. At Paris, Saint Denys de la Chapelle, where Joan of Arc is known to have prayed, has been demolished to make way for a more imposing basilica — to be built with the money subscribed in case the “City of Light” was spared an invasion by the Germans in the Autumn of 1914. And at Montpellier the famous Eglise de Sainte Claire has been turned into a moving picture theatre.
The edifice at Montpellier is said to be by far the more famous. The first church, built in the tenth century, was destroyed by Louis XIII in the siege of Montpellier in 1623 and rebuilt by the Protestants, who occupied it until 1873, when it became first a printing office and then a garage.
Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, the father of Napoleon I, was first buried in it pending the arrival of the monument which his famous son
never allowed to be completed. At the time of the Restoration the body was removed to its present resting place in the Eglise de Saint Leu Tavarny, in the canton of Montmorency.
ROMAN THEATRE FOUND IN NORMANDY
A ROMAN theatre, apparently the largest built in Roman Gaul, has, it is learned, recently been discovered in Les Andelys, France.
By its form and vast dimensions it offers the greatest interest to archaeologists and students of the history of the Roman occupation. Excavations made up to the present show that its diameter is nearly 400 feet, which, it is estimated, would give a seating capacity of more than 60, 000.
The theatre at Orange, hitherto regarded as the largest in France, has a diameter of only 335 feet with accommodation for 42, 000.
PARK CLUB, BUFFALO, N. Y., NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION
CLIFFORD C. WENDEHACK, ARCHITECT
are strangely lacking in Viterbo, and the familiar motif of a rich cornice supported by two slender columns seems to be equally neglected. But sculptors will continue to gaze and poets will indite more stanzas to Viterbo’s placid fountains. They have a unique and undisputed place among the treasures of Italy.
NOTED FRENCH CHURCHES GO
FRANCE has only recently lost two historic churches, it is learned from news despatches. At Paris, Saint Denys de la Chapelle, where Joan of Arc is known to have prayed, has been demolished to make way for a more imposing basilica — to be built with the money subscribed in case the “City of Light” was spared an invasion by the Germans in the Autumn of 1914. And at Montpellier the famous Eglise de Sainte Claire has been turned into a moving picture theatre.
The edifice at Montpellier is said to be by far the more famous. The first church, built in the tenth century, was destroyed by Louis XIII in the siege of Montpellier in 1623 and rebuilt by the Protestants, who occupied it until 1873, when it became first a printing office and then a garage.
Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, the father of Napoleon I, was first buried in it pending the arrival of the monument which his famous son
never allowed to be completed. At the time of the Restoration the body was removed to its present resting place in the Eglise de Saint Leu Tavarny, in the canton of Montmorency.
ROMAN THEATRE FOUND IN NORMANDY
A ROMAN theatre, apparently the largest built in Roman Gaul, has, it is learned, recently been discovered in Les Andelys, France.
By its form and vast dimensions it offers the greatest interest to archaeologists and students of the history of the Roman occupation. Excavations made up to the present show that its diameter is nearly 400 feet, which, it is estimated, would give a seating capacity of more than 60, 000.
The theatre at Orange, hitherto regarded as the largest in France, has a diameter of only 335 feet with accommodation for 42, 000.
PARK CLUB, BUFFALO, N. Y., NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION
CLIFFORD C. WENDEHACK, ARCHITECT