Some Facts about Alsace and Lorraine : A Paper Read Before the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January 2, 1895 (Classic Reprint) by Thomas Willing Balch (2016, Trade Paperback)
Excerpt from Some Facts About Alsace and Lorraine: A Paper Read Before the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January 2, 1895 Strasbourg has two monuments that have an interna tional fame: the tomb of Marshal Saxe and the cathedral. The monument erected to the memory of the great marshal of Louis the Fifteenth 15 In the Evangelical Church of St. Thomas. It is made of white marble, and shows Death beckoning Maurice of Saxe into the tomb, while France is vainly trying to hold him back, and around him are allegorical figures representing the countries Whose armies he had defeated. There is nothing in the church that can challenge comparison with the tomb in any sense and divert your attention from it, and, probably because it is quite alone, it appears to be finer than anything in Westmin ster Abbey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Some Facts about Alsace and Lorraine : A Paper Read Before the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January 2, 1895 (Classic Reprint)