Crossword-Solution: HIVER 5 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

While the cannon with which the rioters were threatened on January 29, were, so to speak, still trained ready for firing, a charity ball attracted all Paris to the Jardin d’Hiver.

This is what the Jardin d’Hiver was like: A poet had pictured it in a word: “They have put summer under a glass case!” It was an immense iron cage with two naves forming a cross, as large as four or five cathedrals and covered with glass.

But what made the Jardin d’Hiver unique was that beyond this vestibule of light and music and noise, through which one gazed as through a vague and dazzling veil, a sort of immense and tenebrous arch, a grotto of shadow and mystery, could be discerned.

Jeune fille, le sapin n’est pas beau, N’est pas beau comme le peuplier, Mais il garde son feuillage l’hiver.

Elle avait retrouvé là tout à coup, en elle-même, la trace d’un sentiment bien oublié: cette sorte de tristesse et d’effroi qu’elle éprouvait jadis, étant toute petite, quand on la menait à la première messe des matins d’hiver, dans l’église de Paimpol.