ANCIENT FRENCH CHURCH
GUARDED BY VILLAGERS RUMOURED GIFT TO ' ROCKEFELLER (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PARIS, 25th November. Peasants of Chaucirey le Chatel, a village in Eastern France, are guarding day and night the church of Saint Hubert to prevent the Government presenting it to Mr John Rockefeller in recognition of the millionaire’s gifts. to France. It was proposed that the church, which is a gem of Gothic architecture and the village’s' only claim to fame, be dismantled’ and reassembled in the United States! The announcement of the plan drew a protest from the peasants and when a few days ago, a man was seen measuring the. church, an alarm was sounded. Sturdy peasants flocked in from the fields and formed a permanent guard rpund the building.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 7
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