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of the whole history of the Bible at one end is a sort of high pulpit, extremely pretty.  Louis XI, who was afterwards king, was afraid to go to church, as he was very wicked, by the fear of being assacinated, so he had a little room by the side of the church built with a small window going into it, so that he could ^[[insertion]] sit [[/insertion]] there and see the Minister and be seen by no one. 
 Opposite the pulpit, above a very fine door, is a rose in stain glass.  This is not so old as the rest of the church, it was built about 250 years after, in the reign of [[empty line]]  

We then,  after seeing all 
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these interesting things, drove to Notre Dame, which is quite near there.
The steeples are not finished so the outside is not so handsome as it might be, yet it is very fine.
The church is in the Gothic style, with its heavy pillars joining to the roof.  Along both sides are Chapels with the chairs, or whatever you call them, where people go to confession [[underlined]] [[strikethrough]] in them. [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]]
 You go to the right to the room where the treasures are kept.  Here a man tell you all about them.  It seems wonderful that such fine work as you see could have been done as far back as the 13th century.  There is some work in red
 

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For your ref: When there is an insertion TC has told volunpeers to transcribe as ^[[insertion]] text [[/insertion]]. Where the empty line is indicated, it seems as if the author planned to fill the information on whose reign it was when the pulpit was built at later date. Maybe after she could look up the information?