  The church, dedicated to is not of much importance. The popularity of S. Margaret was so great in the Middle Ages that it seems strange so little Maiden Margrete tho (then) Loked her beside, And sees a loathly dragon Out of an hirn (corner) glide: His eyen were ful griesly, His mouth opened wide, And Margrete might no where flee, There she must abide. Maiden Margrete Stood still as any stone, And that loathly worm, To her-ward gan gone, Took her in his foul mouth, And swallowed her flesh and bone. Anon he brast—(burst) Damage hath she none! Maiden Margrete, Upon the dragon stood; Blyth was her harte, And joyful was her mood. The church of S. Marguerite is in the Rue S. Bernard, Faubourg S. Antoine. The chapel of the Souls in Purgatory is a curious composition by Louis, dated 1765; and still more curious was the burying, in 1737, of the tomb of Antoine Fayet, one of the curÉs, because of the indecent nudity of the white marble Angels, a piece of astounding prudery in that peculiarly indecent period of French history. Some pictures illustrative of the life of S. Vincent de Paul are remarkable from the truthfulness of the portraiture; they were formerly in the Lazarists' Church. A marble Descent from the Cross, designed by Girardon, and sculptured by his pupils Le Lorrain and Nourrisson for the church of S. Landry, found its way to S. Marguerite in 1817, where it accompanies another Descent painted upon wood, and very excellent in its way. |
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