[Over Strand and Field by Gustave Flaubert]@TWC D-Link bookOver Strand and Field CHAPTER VI 11/13
It is not the same with us, because we have relegated eternity to the outskirts of the city, have banished our dead to the faubourgs and laid them to rest in the carpenter's quarter, near the soda factories and night-soil magazines. About three o'clock in the afternoon, we arrived at the chapel of Kerfeunteun, near the entrance to Quimper.
At the upper end of the chapel is a fine glass window of the sixteenth century, representing the genealogical tree of the Holy Trinity.
Jacob forms the trunk, and the top is figured by the Cross surmounted by the Eternal Father with a tiara on His head.
On each side, the square steeple represents a quadrilateral pierced by a long straight window.
This steeple does not rest squarely on the roof, but instead, by means of a slender basis, the narrow sides of which almost touch, it forms an obtuse angle near the ridge of the roof.
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