There are in Blackstone Hall in the Chicago Art Institute several great Romanesque and Gothic portals, pillars, and statues that might tell directly upon certain settings of our Jeanne d'Arc pageant.

They are from Notre Dame du Port at Clermont-Ferrand, the Abbey church of St.Gilles, the Abbey of Charlieu, the Cathedral of Amiens, Notre Dame at Paris, the Cathedral of Bordeaux, and the Cathedral of Rheims.

Perhaps the object I care for most in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, is the complete model of Notre Dame, Paris, by M.Joly.Why was this model of Notre Dame made with such exquisite pains?
Certainly not as a matter of mere information or cultivation.

I venture the first right these things have to be taken care of in museums is to stimulate to new creative effort.
I went to look over the Chicago collection with a friend and poet Arthur Davison Ficke.

He said something to this effect: "The first thing I see when I look at these fragments is the whole cathedral in all its original proportions.