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A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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Rouen_, 1686, has devoted nearly one hundred pages to an account of
Calvinistic depredations.

[39] [Mr. Cotman has a plate of the elevation of the front of this south
transept; and a very minute and brilliant one will be found in the
previous edition of this Tour--by Mr. Henry le Keux: for which that
distinguished Artist received the sum of 100 guineas. The remuneration
was well merited.]

[40] [Mons. Licquet says each clustered pillar contains thirty-one
columns.]

[41] This chapel is about ninety-five English feet in length, by thirty in
width, and sixty in heighth. The sprawling painting by Philippe de
Champagne, at the end of it, has no other merit than that of covering
so many square feet of wall. The architecture of this chapel is of the
XIVth century: the stained glass windows are of the latter end of the
XVth. On completing the circuit of the cathedral, one is surprised to
count not fewer than _twenty-five_ chapels.

[42] [Mons. Licquet is paraphrastically warm in his version, here. He
renders it thus: "les atteintes effroyables du vandalisme
révolutionaire," vol. i. p. 64.]

[43] Sandford, after telling us that he thinks there "never was any
portraiture" of the Duke, thus sums up his character. "He was justly
accounted one of the best generals that ever blossomed out of the
royal stem of PLANTAGENET. His valour was not more terrible to his
enemies than his memory honourable; for (doubtful whether with more
glory to him, or to the speaker) King Lewis the Eleventh being
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