Vincent admired the entrance of the St-Trophime church on Place de la République. He wrote to his brother Theo in March 1888:

“There’s a Gothic porch here that I’m beginning to think is admirable, the porch of St Trophime, but it’s so cruel, so monstrous, like a Chinese nightmare, that even this beautiful monument in so grand a style seems to me to belong to another world, to which I’m as glad not to belong as to the glorious world of Nero the Roman.” Read the complete letter