— 396 — 



for the monuments of a great past. "With the exception 

 of Paris, no city on French soil has preserved more 

 curious monuments or more interesting vestiges of its 

 early times : her superb churches are the admiration 

 of all Europe. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Saint- 

 Ouen, Saint-Maclou, Saint- Gervais, Saint-Godard, Saint- 

 Patrice, Saint- Vincent, are all in one way or other 

 remarkable edifices. 



The Cathedral of Eouen. — It was erected on the 

 site of a church previously destroyed by fire in the year 

 1200, from funds provided by John Lackland; the 

 chief portion of the building dates from the first years 

 of the XIII century, though some parts such as the 

 base of the northern tower are older and belonged to 

 the structure destroyed in 1200. This grand old temple 

 of worship is 408 feet (136 metres) long, 100 feet broad, 

 the transept is 162 feet in length. It contains twenty- 

 five chapels; there are in it, 130 windows, on designs 

 most varied, marvellously beautiful, some of them dating 

 back to the 13th century. It would require a volume 

 to describe this magnificent Cathedral. The choir, 108 

 feet long, contained formerly the tombs of Eichard 

 Cceur-de-Lion, of his brother Henry Court-Mantel, of 

 their uncle William and of the famous Duke of Bedford; 

 these tombs, mutilated, it is said, in 1562 by the 

 Calvinists, disappeared when the choir was rebuilt in 

 1836. Searches made in 1836, brought to light the 

 heart and a statue of Eichard ; and in 1862, the heart 

 of the King Charles V. Funereal inscriptions and tombs 

 are still numerous in the Cathedral of Eouen. In the 

 chapelle du petit Saint- Romain may be seen the tomb 

 of Eollo, first Duke of Normandy ; the remains of Wil- 

 liam, the son and successor of Duke Eollo, lie in the 

 Chapelle Sainte-Anne. In another chapel, under an 

 arcade, is the reclining statue of a bishop, whose soul, 

 under the symbol of a child, is escorted to heaven by 

 angels with outspread wings ; this is the sarcophagus 

 of Archbishop Maurice, who died in 1235. There are 



