GREAT FIRE IN FRANCE
4 HISTORIC TOWN MARK DESTROYED (Australian Press Association.) Faris, September 16. Fire destroyed nearly the whole of the ancient city of Bourges, in the Department of Cher, lasting all night long. The damage is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. The historic Palace de Jacques Coeur narrowly escaped. The world-famous cathedral also escaped damage. [Jacques Coeur was a famous figure in the later Middle Ages, being at once a great financier and military commander. After some dispute with the King he went to Rome, where lie was to undertake charge of an expedition to be fitted out by Pope Callistus, but this did not eventuate, and Jacques Coetir died at the Isle of Chios.]
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 299, 18 September 1928, Page 10
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