Notre-Dame de Paris — Page 12
and the grand hall, with its gilding, its azure, its statues, its pointed arches, its pillars, its immense vault, all fretted with carvings? and the gilded chamber? and the stone lion, which stood at the door, with lowered head and tail between his legs, like the lions on the throne of Solomon, in the humiliated attitude which befits force in the presence of justice? and the beautiful doors? and the stained glass? and the chased ironwork, which drove Biscornette to despair? and the delicate woodwork of Hancy? What has time, what have men done with these marvels? What have they given us in return for all this Gallic history, for all this Gothic art?
und der große Saal, mit seiner Vergoldung, seinem Azurblau, seinen Statuen, seinen Spitzbögen, seinen Säulen, seinem ungeheuren Gewölbe, das ganz mit Schnitzereien bedeckt war? und die vergoldete Kammer? und der steinerne Löwe, der an der Tür stand, mit gesenktem Haupt und dem Schwanz zwischen den Beinen, wie die Löwen auf dem Thron Salomons, in der demütigen Haltung, die der Stärke in Gegenwart der Gerechtigkeit geziemt? und die schönen Türen? und die bunten Glasfenster? und die getriebene Eisenarbeit, die Biscornette zur Verzweiflung trieb? und das zierliche Holzwerk von Hancy? Was hat die Zeit, was haben die Menschen mit diesen Wunderwerken gemacht? Was haben sie uns als Gegenleistung für all diese gallische Geschichte, für all diese gotische Kunst gegeben?
The heavy flattened arches of M. de Brosse, that awkward architect of the Saint-Gervais portal. So much for art; and, as for history, we have the gossiping reminiscences of the great pillar, still ringing with the tattle of the Patru.
Die schweren, abgeflachten Bögen des Herrn de Brosse, jenes unbeholfenen Architekten des Portals von Saint-Gervais. Das ist alles, was die Kunst zu bieten hat; und was die Geschichte betrifft, so haben wir die geschwätzigen Erinnerungen der großen Säule, die noch immer vom Geplapper der Patru widerhallt.
It is not much. Let us return to the veritable grand hall of the veritable old palace.
Das ist nicht viel. Kehren wir zurück zu dem wahrhaftigen großen Saal des wahrhaftigen alten Palastes.
The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls—in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite—say, "such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world"; the other by the chapel where Louis XI.
Die beiden Enden dieses gigantischen Parallelogramms waren besetzt, das eine durch den berühmten Marmortisch, so lang, so breit und so dick, dass, wie die alten Katasterrollen — in einem Stil, der Gargantua Appetit gemacht hätte — sagen: „ein solches Stück Marmor, wie es die Welt noch nie gesehen hatte"; das andere durch die Kapelle, in der Ludwig XI.
Vocabulary
- große
- Large or great in size or importance
- Saal
- A large hall or room in a building
- Vergoldung
- The application of gold coating or gilding
- Azurblau
- A vivid sky-blue or azure color
- Statuen
- Three-dimensional sculptural figures representing people or things
- Spitzbögen
- Pointed arches characteristic of Gothic architecture
- Säulen
- Vertical pillars or columns supporting a structure
- ungeheuren
- Enormous, vast, or tremendously large in scale
- Gewölbe
- A vaulted ceiling or arched roof structure
- ganz
- Entirely, completely, or wholly covered
- Schnitzereien
- Decorative wood or stone carvings on surfaces
- bedeckt
- Covered or coated with something on top
- vergoldete
- Gilded or covered with a layer of gold
- Kammer
- A small private room or chamber
- steinerne
- Made of stone, stony in material
- Löwe
- A lion, large predatory feline animal
- Tür
- A door providing entrance or exit
- gesenktem
- Lowered or bowed down in position
- Haupt
- Head or chief, often used poetically
- Schwanz
- The tail of an animal
- zwischen
- Preposition meaning between two things or positions
- Beinen
- Legs of a person or animal
- Löwen
- Plural or genitive form of lion
- Thron
- A ceremonial seat of a king or ruler
- Salomons
- Genitive form of Solomon, biblical king's name
- demütigen
- Humble or submissive in manner or posture
- Haltung
- Posture, stance, or attitude of a person
- Stärke
- Strength, power, or force of something
- Gegenwart
- Presence or the current moment in time
- Gerechtigkeit
- Justice or fairness as a moral principle
- geziemt
- Is fitting or appropriate for a situation
- schönen
- Beautiful or lovely in an aesthetic sense
- Türen
- Plural of Tür, multiple doors or entrances
- bunten
- Colorful or multicolored in a vivid way
- Glasfenster
- Glass windows, often stained decorative church windows
- getriebene
- Hammered or embossed metalwork crafted by hand
- Eisenarbeit
- Ironwork or decorative metalwork made from iron
- Verzweiflung
- Despair or hopeless distress causing great anguish
- trieb
- Past tense of treiben, meaning drove or pushed
- zierliche
- Delicate, dainty, or elegantly fine in appearance
- Holzwerk
- Woodwork or wooden construction and decorative elements
- Zeit
- Time as a concept or measured period
- Menschen
- People or human beings in general
- Wunderwerken
- Masterworks or miraculous works of great craftsmanship
- Gegenleistung
- Compensation or something given in return
- gallische
- Relating to Gaul or French Gallic heritage
- Geschichte
- History or a story of past events
- gotische
- Relating to Gothic style in art or architecture
- Kunst
- Art or artistic skill and creative expression
- schweren
- Heavy or difficult, inflected adjective form
- abgeflachten
- Flattened or depressed in shape, less curved
- Bögen
- Arches or bows in architecture or geometry
- Herrn
- Genitive or dative form of Herr, mister or lord
- jenes
- Demonstrative pronoun meaning that, genitive neuter
- unbeholfenen
- Clumsy or awkward and lacking in skill
- Architekten
- Genitive or plural form of architect
- Portals
- Genitive form of portal, monumental entrance or gateway
- alles
- Everything or all there is to offer
- bieten
- To offer or provide something to someone
- betrifft
- Concerns or relates to a particular subject
- geschwätzigen
- Chattering, talkative, or excessively gossipy in manner
- Erinnerungen
- Memories or recollections of past events
- großen
- Large or great, inflected adjective form
- Säule
- A single pillar or column in architecture
- noch
- Still, yet, or even in comparison
- immer
- Always or still, indicating continuity over time
- Geplapper
- Idle chatter or babbling talk without substance
- widerhallt
- Echoes or resounds with a repeated sound
- viel
- Much or a lot of something
- Kehren
- Returning or turning back to a place
- zurück
- Back or backward, indicating return to origin
- wahrhaftigen
- True, genuine, or authentic in nature
- alten
- Old or ancient, inflected adjective form
- Palastes
- Genitive form of Palast, palace or grand building
- beiden
- Both of two things or people
- Enden
- Ends or extremities of something elongated
- gigantischen
- Gigantic or enormous in size and scale
- Parallelogramms
- Genitive of parallelogram, a four-sided geometric figure
- besetzt
- Occupied or taken up by something or someone
- durch
- Preposition meaning through or by means of
- berühmten
- Famous or renowned, inflected adjective form
- Marmortisch
- A table made of marble stone
- lang
- Long in length or duration
- breit
- Wide or broad in extent
- dick
- Thick or fat in dimension
- Katasterrollen
- Land registry rolls or cadastral survey documents
- Stil
- Style or manner of doing something
- Appetit
- Appetite or desire for food
- hätte
- Subjunctive past of haben, meaning would have
- sagen
- To say or to tell something
- solches
- Such a thing, demonstrative pronoun neuter
- Stück
- A piece or portion of something larger
- Marmor
- Marble, a hard polished decorative stone
- Welt
- The world or earth as a whole
- nie
- Never, at no time in the past or future
- gesehen
- Past participle of sehen, meaning seen
- andere
- Other or another, referring to a different thing
- Kapelle
- A small chapel or private place of worship
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