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CATHEDRAL CITIES OF FRANCE

[Illustration: LÂON, VIEW FROM THE PLAIN]




CATHEDRAL CITIES

OF FRANCE

BY

HERBERT MARSHALL, R.W.S.

AND

HESTER MARSHALL

WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BY HERBERT MARSHALL, R.W.S.

[Illustration]

TORONTO

THE MUSSON BOOK CO., Limited

1907

COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
_Published September, 1907_




NOTE


The following chapters are the result of notes put together during
summers spent in France in the course of the last five years. They are
not intended to mark out any particular geographical scheme, though
considered as isolated suggestions they may possibly prove useful to the
intending traveller; nor do they aim at covering all the Cathedral
cities of France.

The authors are indebted for much valuable help from the following
books: Viollet-le-Duc’s “Dictionnaire de l’Architecture”; Mr. Phené
Spiers’s “Architecture East and West”; Mr. Francis Bond’s “Gothic
Architecture in England”; Mr. Henry James’s “Little Tour in France”; Mr.
Cecil Headlam’s “Story of Chartres”; Freeman’s “History of the Norman
Conquest” and “Sketches of French Travel”; Dr. Whewell’s “Notes on a
Tour in Picardy and Normandy”; M. Guilhermy’s “Itineraire archéologique
de Paris”; M. Hoffbauer’s “Paris à travers les ages”; M. Enlart’s
“Architecture Réligieuse”; Mr. Walter Lonergan’s “Historic Churches of
Paris”; the “Chronicles” of Froissart and Monstrelet; and to the letters
in _The Times_ of its war correspondent, 1870 and 1871.

H. M. M. and H. M.




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                                             PAGE

I A FRENCH CATHEDRAL CITY                                              1

II BOULOGNE TO AMIENS                                                 15

III LÂON, RHEIMS, AND SOISSONS                                        38

IV ROUEN                                                              62

V EVREUX AND LISIEUX                                                  88

VI BAYEUX                                                            104

VII ST. LÔ AND COUTANCES                                             128

VIII LE MANS                                                         151

IX ANGERS                                                            169

X TOURS AND BLOIS                                                    181

XI CHARTRES                                                          201

XII ORLÉANS, BOURGES, AND NEVERS                                     218

XIII MOULINS, LIMOGES, AND PÉRIGUEUX                                 245

XIV ANGOULÊME AND POITIERS                                           267

XV LA ROCHELLE AND BORDEAUX                                          281

XVI SENS, AUXERRE, AND TROYES                                        299

XVII MEAUX, SENLIS, AND BEAUVAIS                                     324

XVIII PARIS AND SOME OF ITS CHURCHES                                 348

INDEX                                                                385




ILLUSTRATIONS


Lâon: view from the plain                    _Frontispiece_

St. Martin, Lâon                             _Facing Page_             2

The Quayside, Amiens                           "      "                6

A Street in Perigueux                          "      "               10

The Porte Gayole, Boulogne                     "      "               16

Abbeville                                      "      "               24

The Place Vogel, Amiens                        "      "               28

Evening on the Somme at Amiens                 "      "               32

The Ramparts, Lâon                             "      "               42

Lâon from the Boulevards                       "      "               48

Rheims                                         "      "               54

Soissons                                       "      "               58

Rouen from the River                           "      "               68

Rue de l’Horloge, Rouen                        "      "               78

Rue St. Romain, Rouen                          "