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One day, during the minority of the Emperor Henry IV., the tutors of the prince, the proud Archbishop Annon of Cologne and the Palatine, Henry the Furious, held a meeting with certain other seigneurs at Andernach. The same day the inhabitants of Guels, a village near Coblenz, lodged a complaint before the Palatine concerning the exactions of the provost of their village. This last, himself, followed the deputies, magnificently clothed and mounted upon a richly caparisoned horse, counting upon his presence to counteract the impression they might make. Among the collection of wild beasts which had been gathered together for the amusement of the princes was a ferocious bear. When the provost passed near him, the animal sprang upon him and tore him to pieces, whereupon it was supposed that the venerable archbishop had exercised a divine power, and delivered up the oppressor to the fury of a wild beast. Like most of the Rhine legends, it is astonishingly simple in plot, and likewise has a religious turn to it, which shows the great respect of the ancient people of these regions toward their creed. _Sinzig_ Between Andernach and Bonn is the tiny city of Sinzig, famous for two things,--its charmingly disposed parish church and the wines of Assmanhaus. The town was the ancient Sentiacum of the Romans, constructed in all probability by Sentius, one of the generals of Augustus. The church at Sinzig, in company with St. Quirinus at Neuss, has some of the best mediaeval glass in Germany. This small, but typically Rhenish, parish church has also a series of polychromatic decorations which completely cover its available wall space. There is a vividness about them which may be pleasing to some, but which will strike many as being distinctly unchurchly. [Illustration: _Sinzig_] As a Christian edifice, the church at Sinzig, with its central tower and spire, is only remarkable as typifying the style of Romano-ogival architecture which developed so broadly in the Rhine valley at the expense of the purer Gothic. XXII TREVES Southwesterly from Coblenz, between the Rhine and Metz, is Treves, known by the Germans as Trier. Situated at the southern end of a charming valley, which more or less closely follows the banks of the Moselle, it has the appearance of being a vast park with innumerable houses and edifices scattered here and there through the foliage. The city contains many churches, of which the c
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