FRENCH COLOMBIER 



in Scotland, we may find a potence placed in a 

 square pigeon-house. 



Sometimes, especially in Auvergne, the 

 dovecote was constructed in the dwelling-house 

 to which it was attached. An example occurs 

 at Montpazier,in the department of Dordogne, 

 where a gable is pierced by a series of entrance- 

 holes for the birds. A similar arrangement is 

 found in many English houses, more especially 

 in Yorkshire. 



Some of the earliest of French dovecotes, 

 massive circular buildings resembling the Ro- 

 man columbarium in their general form, had 

 very little actual roof, a large part of the dome 

 being open to the sky. This practice does not 

 seem to have been followed later than the four- 

 teenth century. Subsequent erections, many 

 built about the sixteenth century, were either 

 round, octagonal or square. The dovecote at 

 St. Ouen, Rouen, was cruciform; avery unusual 

 shape, of which a fine example was formerly 

 extant in England. In cases where the whole 

 of the building was not devoted to pigeons the 

 lower story was put to various uses ; it might 

 form an open shed, a fowl-house, stable, cellar, 



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