ART TREASURES.
PRECAUTIONS IN FRANCE. PARIS, March 28. All the most valuable stained-glass windows in Notre Dame, the Sainte Chapelle, Saint Etienne du Mont and other Paris churches have been taken down and removed to safe keeping. Other art treasures are being protected with sandbags, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Place des Victoires, the tomb of Napoleon,, and the groups of statuary outside the Opera. Little remains in the museum except antiquities and frescoes. Valuable windows have also been removed from Chartres* Bourgos, Amiens, Beauvais and Strasbourg Cathedrals. In all, over 50,000 pieces of glass, which, if put together, would cover 33 acres, have been saved from possible destruction, and not one of them was broken.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 112, 10 April 1940, Page 8
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129ART TREASURES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 112, 10 April 1940, Page 8
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