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:^tienne indicating the extremity of the monastery's domains. Above the great doorway is a bas-relief of the stoning of S. Stephen and the legend : Lapts zemplum Domini destruit, lapis astruit. Right and left are statues of S. jfetienne and S. Gene- vieve, the two patrons; above are Angels bearing torches. Upon the pediment is the Resurrection, and under the lintel we read : Stephana archimartyro sacrum. Two Angels above SAINT-ETIENNE DU MONT. 105 the great rose window bear the arms of Margueri...te de Valois, and at the summit are the statues of S. Hilary and S. Bene- dict, p:itrons of two churches in the parish, now demohshed. The interior of S. Etienne is no less singular than the ex- THE SCKEEN LOOKING TOWARDS THE CHOIR. terior. The side aisles are nearly as high as the nave, and have enormous windows. The shafts which support the vault of the nave are of great height, and the bays are of the same eleva- tion as the side aisles. Above these bays is a clerestory, the windows of which are as broad as they are high, with depressed io6 THE CHURCHES OF PARIS.
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