Dixmude the Epic of the French Marines October 17 November 10 1914
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" It is a kind of Pont-Labbe, " wrote one of our sailors, but a Flemish Pont-Labbe, all bricks and tiles, dotted with cafes and nunneries, clean, mystical, sensuous, and charming, espe- cially when the rain ceased for a while, and the old houses, coloured bright green or yellow, smiled at the waters of the canal behind their screen of ancient limes, under a clear sky. From the four points of the horizon long lines of poplars advanced in procession to the fine church of Saint Nicolas, the pride ...of the place. The graceful fifteenth- century apse was justly praised ; but after having admired this, there were further beauties to enjoy in the interior, which con- tained a good Jouvenet, Jordaens' Adoration ) J i ^ ;->, r'' THE PAPEGAEI INN (From a picture by M. Leon Cassel) DIXMUDE 43 of the Magi, a well-proportioned font, and one of the most magnificent rood-screens of West Flanders, the contemporary and rival of those of Folgoet and Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. This stately church, the exquisite Grand' Place of the Hotel de Ville, the " Roman " bridge of the canal of Handzaeme, the slender silhouette of the Residencia (the house of the Spanish Governors), and five or six other old-time dwellings, with crow-stepped or flexured gables, like the hostelry of Den Papagaei (The Parrot), which bore the date of its foundations in huge figures upon its bulging front, hardly sufhced to draw the cosmopolitan tourist tide towards Dixmude.
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