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three or four other tombs in the chapel of the Holy 

 Virgin, of great beauty : one to Pierre de Breze, Comte 

 de Maulevrier, killed at the battle of Monthlery, in 

 1465. To his grandson, Louis de Breze\ a neat sepulchre 

 was built by his widow, the beautiful Diana of Poitiers. 

 A splendid funereal monument was raised between the 

 years 1518 and 1525 to the two Cardinals d'Amboise 

 in this cathedral ; two fine figures in black marble, in 

 a kneeling attitude, with bare head and hands crosssed, 

 stand on the black marble tomb ; numerous other 

 mausolea attract the attention of the visitor. 



Saint-Gervais.-— Towards the north-west extremity 

 of the city, the church of Saint-Gervais is full of interest 

 for the antiquary. Erected doubtless on the site of the 

 chapel, where the Archbishop Saint- Victor placed the 

 relics of Saint-Gervais, which he had received from 

 Ambrosius, it has been several times rebuilt. In the 

 chrypt under the choir, rest the remains of the two first 

 archbishops of Eouen — Saint Mellon and Saint Avitien. 

 Here, prior to being interred in the Abbey of Saint 

 Stephen, at Caen, was brought from Nantes, in 1087, 

 the body of William the Conqueror ; a stone bench runs 

 round the crypt. The walls appear to be of Koman 

 construction ; it is the oldest christian monument of 

 Normandy. 



Saint -Godard. — This fane is in the ogival style of 

 architecture, of the sixteenth century, except the spire, 

 which is low and ornamented with ionic pillars ; the 

 latter portion is more modern. Those of its stained 

 glass windows who have escaped destruction, date of 

 the sixteenth century, and were, it is said, designed 

 from the cartoons of Eaphael and his pupil, Francois 

 Penni ; the coloring of these ornate windows is sur- 

 passingly bright, of a limpid, rosy, red wine hue, and 

 so strikingly beautiful that they gave rise to the proverb ; 

 " Eed like the glass windows of Saint Godard." 



Saint-Maclou. — This temple of worship on the 

 street de la Rdpublique, is a charming example of the 



