When the Revolution of July placed his friends in power and Duchâtel became a member of the Guizot ministry, Vitet was made Inspector of Historical Monuments, a post which Guizot devised specially for him.
It found expression in essays, descriptions of historical monuments, translations from the Russian, and modest but careful historical research and historical writings.
In 1831, when his political friends came into power, he was appointed Inspector of Historical Monuments, as successor to Vitet, in whose footsteps he had already followed as an author.
What a satisfaction there lay in disappointing all the critics who were lying in wait to detect the dilettante and novel-writer in the inspector of historical monuments!
Sidenote: Destruction of Historical Monuments, Works of Art, and the like.
Paul Boeswillwald, Inspector General of Historical Monuments, confirms the first statements: Historical Monuments, Cathedral of Paris.
All destruction or intentional damage of buildings devoted to the above purposes, of historical monuments, of archives, and of works of art or science, is forbidden, unless it be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war.
It offers nothing special in the way of historical monuments, save a fourteenth-century Hotel de Ville and innumerable old houses.
Saint-Palais has no historical monuments; all is as new and shining as Monte Carlo or the Digue at Ostend, but its history of long ago is important.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "historical monuments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
