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La-bas

CHAPTER VIII
14/45

To reanimate it we must revisualize the opulent flesh which once covered these bones of sandstone.

Documents give us every detail.

This carcass was magnificently clad, and if we are to see Gilles in his own environment, we must remember all the sumptuosity of fifteenth century furnishing.
"We must reclothe these walls with wainscots of Irish wood or with high warp tapestries of gold and thread of Arras, so much sought after in that epoch.

Then this hard, black soil must be repaved with green and yellow bricks or black and white flagstones.

The vault must be starred with gold and sown with crossbows on a field _azur_, and the Marshal's cross, _sable_ on shield _or_, must be set shining there." Of themselves the furnishings returned, each to its own place.


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