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Barn and the Pyrenees

CHAPTER III
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The circular arch reigns throughout, but many in _ogive_ also occur in different parts.

The arcades and galleries of the choir are of the utmost delicacy and elegance of form; but the chief attraction is the tomb of the widow of Richard Coeur de Lion, placed in one of the wings of the cross.

The Lady Chapel is undergoing repair, and is being restored in the very best style.

The new screen is beautiful, and the figures of the Virgin and Child in very good taste, as are all the ornaments, which exactly follow the fine originals.

The exterior repairs are carried on with equal skill; and this precious monument will soon be in perfect order.
As I looked at the pure, dignified, and commanding outline of the face of Berangere, she appeared to me to have been a fitting wife for the hero whose effigy had inspired me with so much admiration when I visited it a few years since, at Fontevraud.


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