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Show ART IK" FRENCH CHURCHES. According to a report Just issued by tho French Minister of Fine Arts, tho churches of Franco, and not tho Louvre, tho Luxembourg, tho Musses do Cluny nnd Carnavalct, contain tho art treasures of tho nation. The art treasures In tho public galleries and museums aro but a comparatively small part of tho artistic wealth of France. It is estimated that if brought under the hammer tho pictures, tapestries, statues, carvings and other works of art would reallzo tho fabulous sum of 0,000.000 fran.es. Tho llttlo Roman Church of Conqucs, lost In tho mountains of Avcyron, Is possessed of a treasure which was on view at tho exhibition of 1DC0. It was of suoh marvelous beauty that a syndicate of art dealers offered for It the sum of 32.000.000 francs. It contains tho llncst enamels In tho world, reliquaries given by tho early kings of Franco and Homnn statues In gold and silver. Fortunately For-tunately for France, tho art syndicate did not buv It. Jowoler's Circular. |