The Connecticut labor press., 1919-09-06

AAll, enlarged by Benedict XII and since restored, is now the reposi- tory of the archives of the province, and forms the extreme northern line of buildings between the Tour de Trouillas at the northeastern corner and the Tour de la Campane at the northwest. Benedict's work was built above the older structure, originally the parish church of St. Stephen, by Pierre Poisson of Mirepoix in 1885. For some time it was turned to the base uses of a common gaol, and it was Revolt who designed it's present barrel-vault at a height from the ground which is equivalent to that of the two original buildings one above the other. Their frescOes by Pierre du Puy have all disappeared; but we know that his workmen were paid four shillings day of our money, while he had nearly 20; and that their colora were white, green, sky blue, indigo blue, vermilion, saffron, and so forth, laid on with white of egg, with olive oil and linseed oil, and garnished with fine gold. In 1896 Benedict XII finished the tiling of the floors, and some re- mains of them are preserved in the Musee Calvet in the town. This chapel was not used for more than 30 years and was gravely damaged by fire in 1892 .
 Tour Des Anees.
 Returning to the courtyard we find in the Tour des Anges, at the angle of the eastern wall, one of the best pre- served of all Benedict's buildings. It was originally entered from the in- terior of the palace only, and the steep slope of the rock outside enabled the architect to build two more stories there than are visible from the court. yard. It forms building 461a meters high on the plan of a perfect square, with strong buttress pillar at each angle and walls more than ten feet thick and nearly 60 feet long. It's cellars contained the pope's private stock of wine. Above the wine cellar was the lower treasury, with it's four pointed vaults resting on a central pillar without base or capital, all strongly guarded by huge locks and ironbOund doors.
 Immediately above this was Bene-
 
 by Clement VII in 1879, and called the Chamber of the Flying Stag" from one of the many frescoes still discover able beneath multitudinous layers of military whitewash. Two windows with stone seats in their embrasures look out over the entrance court, and by third you see across the valley of the Rhone to the blue shadows of the distant Alps. Several of the secret stairways, carved in the thickness of the walls, by which the Pope reached various parts of his palace, can still be clearly traced. Above his holiness was a library filled with precious manuscripts, and higher still is a could defend the whole tower against attack, called the chatelet.
 On the left of the spectator, and continuing the east wing of the court yard toward the north, are the other private apartments of the Pope, de- signed by Bernard Canelle of Mar bonne. The appalling reconstructions necessitated by the barracks have al- most entirely destroyed the original conception, but the minute details re- corded in the Vatican are more than sufficient to replace Canelle's design in good time This comprised the Popes private kitchen and wardrobe, his dining room, his study and his ora tory. Behind it, and in the angle of the Tour des Anges, is the little Tour des Etuves, where his holiness took his bath, above the chamberlain's coun- oil room