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Show Sculptor's Masterpiece. The famous statue of St Bruno at Rome was made by the great master of French sculpture, Houdon (1741-1 (1741-1 1828). At the Invitation of Franklin, tloudon vUlted America la the year 1785 and took casts for the. statue of Washington, now at Richmond, Va said by Lafayette to be the best likeness like-ness obtained of the "American Patriot." Pa-triot." St. Bruno belonged to the order or-der of Trapplsts. whose chief law was silence. Pope Clement XVY. on seeing see-ing the statue of St. Bruno, exclaimed: "He would speak did not the rule of j bis order forbid." |