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inscribed in pen and blue ink: 'Sainte Clothilde/Jean Langlais/Tournemire (Seven Words from the Cross)/Cesar Franck (Priere)/Improvisation (Jean Langlais on/Gregorian Chant for Palm Sunday)' in another hand This is a musical programme Rees heard at Sainte-Clothilde in Paris when he and Marjory were there in March 1953. It was copied out for him by Roland Pullen. Sainte-Clothilde is situated on Rue Las-Cases not far from their hotel on Rue de Bellechasse. Jean Langlais (b.1907) was a French composer and organist at Sainte-Clothilde who succeeded one of his teachers, Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) there in 1945, who in turn succeeded the Belgian-born composer, César Franck (1822-90).
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