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Title: Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix (and) Roussillon
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th, fifteenth,and sixteenth centuries the town suffered dreadfulsieges, but became prosperous in the eighteenthunder the government of the Intendant dEtigny, towhom a grateful municipality erected a statue in frontof the Palais de Justice in a tree-planted space namedafter him the Cours dEtigny. It is the cathedral, with its fine choir and windows,which is the goal of our artistic pilgrimage to Auch,however—a choir which is one of four singled out bypopular judgment as the finest in France, the othersbeing Amiens and Brou (which lie beyond the purviewof this volume), and S. Bertrand de Commingesdescribed in a previous chapter. The cathedral wasoriginally built by Bishop Taurin in 844. At thecommencement of the twelfth century it was restored.Soon after Bernard IV. of Armagnac destroyed it,but it was rebuilt in 1371. This building wasburnt in 1483. The Gothic portion (with a Renais-sance flavour) was rebuilt in the sixteenth century,and it used to be said that it was finished in 1597
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CHOIR STALLS, CATHEDRAL, ALCH. To face page 38^. INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL 385 by Leonard de Trappes, but the original contracthas been found, proving that the upper part of thechoir was built from the designs of Pierre Levesvillein 1617 to 1620, and cost 25,000 crowns without thewindows. He was of Orleans, and lived at Toulouse.The west front is of the end of the seventeenth centuryand classic in style. The plan shows a broad naveand two aisles flanked by lateral chapels, a transeptwithout projection, a choir with six square chapelsand five of a polygonal shape radiating round thedeambulatory. The whole is vaulted with ribs, butmany Renaissance details occur mixed with late Gothic.The height to the vault is about 88 feet; the length,including the porch, no less than 334 feet, and thewidth about 73 feet. The door in the south transeptis elaborately carved in the style of Frangois I. (1538 to1547). Some of the same ornaments appear in thecarving of the choir stalls. The date of the cho

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