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Title: The historical monuments of France
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
Subjects: Architecture Cathedrals
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ery high. Four stages thus are formed. Thevaulting is a simple one, with few but massive ribs. The apsecontains some gorgeous ancient colored glass. The monuments,although not numerous, are more so than is usual in France, andshow what the cathedral may have had before the Revolution.Three that are the most remarkable are in the Lady Chapel.Of these three the largest and richest is one made in 1525 forG-eorge dAmboise, Archbishop of Rouen, a cardinal, and min-ister of Louis XIIL, and his brother, also a cardinal. It issuperb, although now worn and faded. Its high, oblong basehas rich pilasters, and six sitting statues placed on pedes-tals in niches. In the middle, or main part, the cardinals arekneeling, and around and behind them are more statues,niches, and pilasters. In the centre is St. George. A sump-tuous canopy in the same style, with more than twenty statuesand rich pinnacles, surmounts this middle part. Another mon-ument, in colored marbles, also rather faded, was erected for
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AHBKY ClIilRC?! OF ST Or EN, at iliOUEX THE cathedral; ST. OUEN. 241 Louis de Br^z^, Seneschal of Normandy, and husband of Dianaof Poitiers, whose kneeling figure at his head mourns over hisrecumbent, slightly draped, emaciated body. At the ends Cor-inthian pillars bear a carved entablature, and over that, beforean arch, the knight is riding in full dress. Two female figuresat each end support another rich entablature and other orna-ments. Both of these monuments are Renaissance. Smallstones placed in the pavement of the choir mark where theheart of Richard Coeur de Lion, and the bodies of some of hiskindred were once buried. The high central spire is curious, although unlovely. Theseven hundredth and the topmost step within it is, or was, notonly the most elevated in a Gothic church accessible, withoutespecial order, to the public, but among the least secure in itsappearance. The spire is very open, and composed of ironcastings screwed together. When the writer mounted to itstop upon

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