ARCHITECTURAL GEM
PEASANTS GUARD CHURCH PARIS, Nov. 25. 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 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 tame, 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 the alarm was sounded, and the sturdy peasants flocked in from the fields and formed a permanent guard round the building.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 7
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