"Soufflot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Genevive, having fallen into decay in the middle of the eighteenth century, Louis XV. determined to replace it by a sumptuous domed edifice in the style of the period. This building, designed by Soufflot, was not completed till the Revolution, when it was immediately secularized as the Panthon, under circumstances to be mentioned later. The remains of Ste. Genevive, which had lain temporarily meanwhile in a sumptuous chapel of St. tienne-du-Mont (the subsidiary church of the monastery) were taken ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various |
