HISTORIC CHURCH
FEASANTS GUARD BUILDING United Press association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, November 25
The peasants of Chaucirey Le Chatel, a village in Eastern France, are guarding day and night the church of St. Hubert, to prevent the Government presenting it to Mr J. D. Rockefeller, in recognition of the millionaire's gifts to France. It was proposed that the church, with its gem Gothic architecture, and the village’s only claim to fame, should 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 and sturdy peasants flocked in from the fields and formed a permanent guard round the building.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20586, 27 November 1936, Page 9
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