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 VINEYARDS COVERING SUNNY FTEEDS IN THE CHAMPAGNE DISTRICT: FRANCE 



counters and out of their beds to fight 

 one another or a common enemy. 



Their bells came to have souls to them 

 as well as names, and French history is 

 full of the picturesque parts they have 

 played in those stormy times. The Rouen 

 tower is ungainly beautiful, and its silvery 

 bell, ancient Rouvel, one of the most 

 famous in France. Below, in the center 

 of the bridge that spans the busy street 

 and resembles the Bridge of Sighs not a 

 little, the Grosse Horloge, or Great Clock, 



still tells the time and a good deal more. 

 But the most pleasing thing about the 

 bridge is the arms of Rouen, a lamb 

 bearing a cross over its shoulder, with 

 one patte raised. What an emblem for a 

 city of wool merchants whose enterprises 

 were always on the go! (see page 400). 

 Interest of the same human sort cen- 

 ters in the stately flamboyant Gothic Pal- 

 ace of Justice, a building that has the 

 majesty of a range of mountains and the 

 beauty of genius in sculptured fagades, 



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