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leries. The church has the total number of one hundred and thirteen 
large side windows, and three large rosettes over the three western portals. 
The greater proportion of these windows are adorned with fine glass- 
paintings. 
9. Toe Appry or St. Denis. The church of St. Genevieve belonging to 
the Abbey of St. Denis was built in the Byzantine style in the year 628-630. 
It fell down in 1160. It was re-erected in the pointed-arch style by Abbot 
Suger in the years 1251-1281, who had designed the plans himself, being 
an expert in all the fine arts. The crypt under the old choir, which is the 
sepulchre of the Kings of France, was retained unchanged (pl. 41, jig. 18). 
It is in pure Byzantine style, its vaults resting partly on thick columns, in 
part on square pillars. At the time of the first French revolution it contained 
the remains of twenty-five kings, ten queens, and eighty-four princes and — 
princesses, which were disturbed by the mob and buried in the neighboring 
churchyard. Louis X VIII. caused the chapel to be re-consecrated. In his 
restoration of the monuments, the old statues were laid on the corners of the 
sarcophagi instead of being left standing near them as before. The upper 
church is not very remarkable, and does not claim special notice more than 
a thousand other buildings in the same style. 
10. Tae Carueprat or Roven. Another remarkable church in France 
is the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rouen, also called the church of St. 
Ouen from the bishop of the same name. Plate 39, fig. 45, gives the view 
of the chief portal, with the market-place in front. It is built in the Ger- 
man style and is cruciform. Its extreme length is 390 feet, the inner 366, 
that of the transept 162, the breadth of the main aisle 27 feet 9 inches 
between the clustered columns, which are 6 feet 7 inches to 7 feet 4 inches 
thick, and stand 9 feet 7 inches apart. The width of the middle space 
between the four chief pillars, which are 12 feet 6 inches thick, is 21 feet 
4% inches. The fourteen round columns of the choir are 34 feet thick and 
36 feet high, and the height of the main aisle and the choir is 84 feet; that 
ef its gallery and of the side aisles is 52 feet. In the nave there are two 
rows of arcades, one above another, although there is but one side aisle on 
each side, and a side gallery stands also in the choir under the high 
windows. 
On the western front, which has three portals perspectively arranged, 
and which is ornamented with fine sculptures, and whose middle portal is 
crowned with a handsome gable, stand two towers 230 feet high. Over the 
middle portal is a great rosette, which is represented in fig. 39, and contains 
very handsome painted glass. Formerly the church had another tower 
over the cross, which was destroyed by fire in the year 1822. It was 
replaced by an iron spire 276 feet high. The transept has two portals. 
The southern one is perspectively arranged and ig crowned with a pointed, 
pierced gable, over which is a great rosette, over which again stands a gable 
which leans against the buttresses. The northern portal has two buttresses 
in the form of towers, and also a rosette crowned with a beautiful gable. 
Besides these three great rosettes, the church has 130 windows, of which, 
however, only those in the high choir and in one chapel have painted glass. 
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