The pulpit, with its Benedictine monogram, is late 17th century. It is ornamented with three bas-reliefs: _St. Remi receiving the Sacred Ampulla_, _St. Benedict imploring the Holy Spirit_, and _St. Benedict giving the Injunction to his monks_. As far as the pulpit, on both sides of the nave, the granite columns resting on the piers date from the Gallo-Roman period. [Illustration: TRIFORIUM OF ST. REMI CHURCH (_seen from entrance_)] The side-aisles of the nave are surmounted with a triforium (_photo above_) with semi-circular vaulting at right-angles to the nave. The south aisle is almost entirely in ruins (_photo, p. 107_). [Illustration: THE NAVE AND CHOIR IN 1919] =The Tapestries= The priceless tapestries which, before the war, decorated the tribunals of the side-aisles, were saved. [Illustration: THE TENTH TAPESTRY OF ST. REMI, DAMAGED BY SHELL-SPLINTERS ON SEPT. 4, 1914 (_See description, pp. 110, 111._)] Those given by Robert de Lenoncourt and restored by _Les Gobelins_, are rich in composition and decorative effect. In an architectural frame of the Renaissance period, they represent the following legendary scenes from the life of St. Remi, the costumes belonging to the period of François I.:-- 1. The blind hermit Montanus visits the new-born Remi, who, touching him with his fingers wet with milk, restores his sight. 2. The hermit St. Remi, called by the people to the bishopric, receives the mitre. 3. Four miracles are performed by the saint: he extinguishes a fire lighted by demons in the city; he restores life to a girl; he is served at table by angels; when wine ran short at the table of his cousin Celsa, he blessed an empty cask, which was immediately filled. 4. The Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis instructed and baptized by Remi; the miraculous dove and an angel bring from heaven the Sacred Ampulla and the fleur-de-lys scutcheon. 5. Remi gives Clovis a cask of wine, telling him that he will always be victorious so long as the cask remains full; a miller who refused to give his mill to the Church, sees his wheel turn the wrong way and his mill fall down; St. Génebaud, Bishop of Soissons, punished by Remi for his sins, is afterwards delivered from his fetters by the saint. 6. The miracle of Hydrissen: Remi raises a man from the dead, who confirms his wish to leave a portion of his wealth to the Church, to the confusion of his son-in-law who contested the will. 7. Remi contemplating a heap of corn which he had collected to provide against famine, and which some drunkards had burnt. At a Council, Remi paralyses the tongue of a heretic priest, and then restores speech to him after repentance. 8. Remi, singing Matins in the chapel of the Virgin, is assisted by St. Peter and St. Paul and blessed by Mary. Remi, blind, dictates his will in the presence of St. Génebaud and St. Médard. Remi recovers his sight, celebrates mass and gives the Communion to his clergy. Remi dies and four angels carry away his soul.