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Show FINE FRENCH CHURCHIS The churches of the department of the Meuse, in the little villages frequently scattered over the rolling roll-ing hills, nestled in the sheltering Argonne, or mirrored in the placid waters of the Meuse or Air, perhaps per-haps suffered as sad a fate as any group of structures could, and by their loss took from the world much-of much-of modest architectural grace and beauty. Although the Meuse in its balmiest prewar days could boast of no famous religious edifices of artis- tic grandeur such as Reims, Amiens or Soissons, its larger churches, sch as the cathedral at Verdun, and the interesting old churches of St. Pisrre and St. Antoine at Bar-le-Dnc, would have demanded special notice i had they not been in a land of great religious monuments. Ralph Fan- j ning, in Architecture. |