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Title: Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent & co. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rpentry. A mason wasan artist : so was a shoemaker. Astronomy and grammarwere arts : so was spinning. Apothecaries and lawyers wereartists : so was a tailor. Dante uses the word artista as de-noting a workman or craftsman, and when he wishes toemphasise the degeneracy of the citizens of his time ascompared with those of the old Florentine race, he does soby saying that in those days their blood ran pure even neWultimo artista (in the commonest workman). Let us becareful how we speak of these ages as dark ; at least therewere retrievements out of the night. Already before thetenth century the basilica of St. Germain des Pres wasknown as St. Germain le dori (the golden), from its glowing Brunctto Latini, in the thirteenth century contrasted the high towersand grim stone walls of the fortress-palaces of the Italian nobles with thelarge, spacious and painted houses of the French, their rooms adornedpour avoir joie et delit (to have joy and delight) and surrounded with orchardsand gardens.
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La Saintk Chapei.le. ART AND LEARNING AT PARIS 87 refulgence, and St. Bernard declaimed against the resplendentcolour and gold in the churches of his time. Never sincethe age of Pericles has so great an effusion of beauty de-scended on the earth as during the wondrous thirteenthcentury in the Isle de France and especially in Paris. We pass from the enthusiasm of art to that of learning.From earliest times, schools, free to the poor, had beenattached to every great abbey and cathedral in France.At the end of the eleventh century four were eminent atParis : the schools of St. Denis, where the young princesand nobles were educated ; of the Parvis Notre Dame, forthe training of young clercs^ the famous Scola Parisiaca^referred to by Abelard ; of St. Genevieve; and of St.Victor, founded by William of Champeaux. The fameof this teacher drew multitudes of young men from theprovinces to Paris, among whom there came, about 1100,Peter Abelard, scion of a noble family of Nantes. By hiswit, erudi

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