Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 117, January 24, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 117, January 24, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Kibroth Hattavah and Wady Mokatteb: Num. xi. 26.
critically examined, by Moses Margoliouth 87
Replies to Minor Queries:--"Theophania"--Royal
Library--Reichenbach's Ghosts--Marriage Tithe in
Wales--Paul Hoste--John of Halifax--Age of Trees--"Mirabilis
Liber"--Cæsarius, &c.--Tripos--"Please the Pigs"--Basnet
Family--Serjeants' Rings--"Crowns have their Compass"--Hell
paved with the Skulls of Priests--Cooper's Miniature of
Cromwell--King Street Theatre--Groom, Meaning of--Schola
Cordis, &c. 88
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 94
Notices to Correspondents 94
Advertisements 95
Notes.
THE PANTHEON AT PARIS.
Among the circumstances which have attracted notice in the remarkable
events of the present French revolution, the restoration of the
_Panthéon_ to its primitive ecclesiastical name and destination has been
specially adverted to, and certainly not without reason from its
implied--indeed, its obvious purpose,--that of propitiating the feelings
and courting the adhesion at least of the agricultural population of the
country to the new order of things; for, indifferent as Paris, with
other cities, may be to religious sentiments or practice, the
unsophisticated inhabitants of the provinces still conscientiously
pursue the forms and exercise the duties of their long-established
worship. No surer means of obtaining their suffrages could have been
adopted by the French President than by gaining the favour of the parish
priests, whose influence is necessarily paramount on such occasions over
their flocks.
In the accounts which have appeared in our journals of the Pantheon and
its varied fate, several errors and deficiencies having struck me, I beg
leave briefly to correct and supply both, with your permission, by a
general history of the beautiful edifice.
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