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But down south, in French rugby's heartlands l'esprit de clocher - literally 'the spirit of the belltower' - is a thing.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

This clocher is a thirteenth-century work, and rises something over two hundred and four feet above the pavement.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

From a distance, this feature has the suggestion of the development of what may perhaps be a local type of clocher.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Musset produced a certain "Ballade à la Lune" which began— C'était dans la nuit brune Sur le clocher jauni, La lune Comme un point sur un i!

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

There is no regularly completed tower to St. Siffrein, but a still unachieved tenth-century clocher in embryo attaches itself on the south.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)




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