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Cathedrals Of France: Notre Dame De Laon Notre Dame De Noyon Notre Dame De Soissons Notre Dame D'Amiens St. Pierre De Beauvais Notre Dame De Rouen Basilique De St. Denis Notre Dame De Paris St. Louis De Versailles St. Julien - Le Mans Notre Dame De Chartres Notre Dame De Reims St. Croix D'Orleans St. Lous De Blois St. Gatien De Tours St. Maurice D'Angers St. Pierre De Nantes St. Etienne D'Auxerre St. Etienne De Bourges St. Cyr And St. Juliette De Nevers St. Mammes De Langres Notre Dame De Boulogne-Sur-Mer Notre Dame De Cambrai Notre Dame De St. Omer St. Vaast D'Arras St. Etienne De Toul St. Etienne, Chalons-Sur-Marne St. Die St. Lazare D'Autun St. Benigne De Dijon Notre Dame De Senlis St. Etienne De Meaux St. Pierre De Troyes St. Etienne De Sens Notre Dame D'Evreux Notre Dame D'Alencon St. Pierre De Lisieux Notre Dame De Seez Notre Dame De Bayeux Notre Dame St. Lo Notre Dame De Coutances St. Pierre D'Avranches St. Samson, Dol-De-Bretagne St. Malo And St. Servan Treguier St. Brieuc St. Pol De Leon Vannes |
( Originally Published Ealry 1900's ) Allied with the see whose jurisdiction includes the Diocese of the Department of the Seine, should be considered that of Seine and Oise, which has its bishop's throne esconced in the Cathedral of St. Louis at Versailles. To all intents and purposes the town is one of those conglomerate units which go to make up the " traveller's Paris." More can hardly be said with due regard to the magnificent edifices with which this cathedral must natu rally be classed. The other attractions of this " court suburb " are so appealing to the sentimentally inclined that it is to be feared that such will have little eye for the very minor attractions of the cathedral. The Tri anons, the " Grandes Eaux " and the " Petites Eaux " are all in all to the visitor to Versailles. As a matter of fact and record, the Cathedral of St. Louis must be mentioned, if only to be dismissed in a word. Bourasee refers to it as " a thing cold, unfeeling, and without life." Truthfully, it is a remarkably ugly building of the middle eighteenth century, with no details of note and no memorials worthy of even a passing regard, except a monument to the Duc de Berry, who died in 1820. What embellishment is given to the interior, is accounted for by the exceeding ruddy glow shed by the contemporary coloured glass of the none too numerous windows. |
