“Il n’est peut-être pas en France d’église plus extraordinaire que la cathédrale du Puy. La nef couverte, non pas d’une voûte, mais d’une suite de coupoles sur trompes, éveille le souvenir de la Perse sassanide. L’Espagne arabe se laisse entrevoir à la façade et dans le cloître. On sait que la fameuse Vierge noire qu’on vénérait dans le sanctuaire passait pour avoir été rapportée d’Égypte. Tout ici évoque l’Orient, cet éternel Orient qui a fasciné le moyen-âge et qui garde pour nous toute sa séduction. On sent à la cathédrale du Puy un désir nostalgique des pays de lumière. Ce décor africain, cet élan vers le Sud, donnent à cette étrange cathédrale un charme irrésistible.”
Thèmes
vierge , avoir , rapport , couvert , étranger , séduction , arabe , perse , charme , cathédrale , moyen , pays , africain , orientation , moyenne , suite , être , francisation , sud , vers , nef , nostalgie , désir , décor , pluie , élan , sanctuaire , garde , lumière , noir , bien-être , façade , église , cloître , rapports , voûte , âge , souvenir , non , coupole , tout
Émile Mâle 2
historien de l’art français, spécialiste de l’art religieux… 1862–1954Citations similaires
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Only one power has not allowed itself to be deceived, the Catholic Church. She is the inexorable enemy of all Masonry. It is certainly known to you that any Catholic is automatically excommunicated the moment he becomes a Mason. The Church knows very well why she is so inexorable. She herself works on Masonic principles; her religious Orders, in particular the Jesuits, are nothing more nor less than powerful lodges of the Catholic Church. She knows what she has herself achieved with this system and will suffer no opposition lodge, using every means to prevent her sheep from straying into it. One cannot be misled by the explanation that the Church is against the Masons because they pay hommage to liberal ideas. By now, these ideas have made such progress even inside the Catholic Church that warnings and prohibitions ont that account are out of place. The inexorable stand of the Catholic Church against Masonry is the best proof of how accurately we have summed it up. Only the foolish Evangelical parsons have still not realized what is at stake. They join the Masons without realizing that they are digging their own graves.
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Sur la Franc-maçonnerie
Only one power has not allowed itself to be deceived, the Catholic Church. She is the inexorable enemy of all Masonry. It is certainly known to you that any Catholic is automatically excommunicated the moment he becomes a Mason. The Church knows very well why she is so inexorable. She herself works on Masonic principles; her religious Orders, in particular the Jesuits, are nothing more nor less than powerful lodges of the Catholic Church. She knows what she has herself achieved with this system and will suffer no opposition lodge, using every means to prevent her sheep from straying into it. One cannot be misled by the explanation that the Church is against the Masons because they pay hommage to liberal ideas. By now, these ideas have made such progress even inside the Catholic Church that warnings and prohibitions ont that account are out of place. The inexorable stand of the Catholic Church against Masonry is the best proof of how accurately we have summed it up. Only the foolish Evangelical parsons have still not realized what is at stake. They join the Masons without realizing that they are digging their own graves.
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