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How France Built Her Cathedrals

Note 169 — Chapter VI · Six of the Lesser Great Cathedrals: Bourges, Beauvais, Troyes, Tours, Lyons, Le Mans (continued 2)

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De la Tremblay, Dom Coutil, L’église abbatiale de Solesmes (Solesmes, Imprimerie St. Pierre, 1892), folio; Paul Vitry, Michel Colombe et la sculpture française de son temps (Paris, 1901); Dom Guépin, Description des deux églises abbatiales de Solesmes, and also his Solesmes et Dom Guéranger (Le Mans, 1876); Dom Guéranger, l’Année Liturgique (Paris, 1888), 12 vols., tr. Worcester, England, The Liturgical Year, and also his Études historiques de l’abbaye de Solesmes; Cagni et Mocquereau, Plain chant and Solesmes (tr. London, 1902).

Among those who have taken part in the discussion as to who made the sculptural groups at Solesmes are L. Palustre, Girardet, Charles and Louis de Grandmaison, Benj. Fillon, Célestin Port, Lambin de Lignin, E. Cartier, A. Salmon, and Abbé Bossebœuf.

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