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Show Sculptor's Masterpiece. The famous statue of St Binno at Rome was made by the great master of French sculpture, Houdon (1741-1828). (1741-1828). At the Invitation of Franklin, Houdon visited America in the year 1733 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" 8t Bruno belonged to the or 1er of Trapplsts. whose chief law was silence. ' Pope Clement XV, on seeing see-ing the statue of St. Bruno, exclnimed : "He would speak did not the rule of his order forbid." |