[Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by George Forrest Browne]@TWC D-Link bookIce-Caves of France and Switzerland CHAPTER VI 11/15
It is, in fact, a very fine church converted into stables, retaining its interior features in excellent preservation.
Under the corn-bin lies a lady who had two husbands and fifteen children, _Antigone in parentes, Porcia in conjuges, Sempronia in liberos_; while a few yards further east, less agreeably placed, is an ecclesiastic of the Gorrevod family, who reckoned Prince and Bishop and Baron among his titles.
The nave of this Church of S.Michael accommodates thirty horses, and the north aisle thirteen; the south is considered more select, and is boarded off for the decani, in the shape of officers' chargers.
The north side of the chancel gives room for six horses, and the south side for a row of saddle-blocks.
It had been an oversight on the part of the original architect of the church that no place was prepared for the daily hay; a fault which the military restorers have remedied by improvising a lady-chapel, where the hay for the day is placed in the morning.
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