bas-relievo

Updated: May 14, 2025

Mordaunt followed the carriage, and when he had watched it drive beneath the sombre arches he went and stationed himself under a wall over which the shadow was extended, and remained motionless, amidst the moldings of Jean Goujon, like a bas-relievo, representing an equestrian statue. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.

Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After