terror into the rest! Well might the Chronicler observe, as the
result, "novas secta illa in dies acquirebat vires." About 1560-2, the
Calvinists got the upper hand; and repaid the Catholics with a
vengeance. Charles of Bourbon died in 1590: so that he had an arduous
and agitated time of it.

[47] How long will this monument--(matchless of its kind)--continue
unrepresented by the BURIN? If Mr. Henry Le Keux were to execute it in
his best style, the world might witness in it a piece of Art entirely
perfect of its kind. But let the pencils of Messrs. Corbould and Blore
be first exercised on the subject. In the mean while, why is GALLIC
ART inert?

[48] The choir was formerly separated from the surrounding chapels, or
rather from the space between it and the chapels, by a superb brass
grating, full of the most beautiful arabesque ornaments--another
testimony of the magnificent spirit of the Cardinal and Prime Minister
of Louis XII.: whose arms, as well as the figure of his patron, St.
George, were seen in the centre of every compartment ... The
Revolution has not left a vestige behind!

[49] [In this edition, I put the above passage in _Italics_,--to
mark, that, within three years of writing it, the spire was consumed
by LIGHTNING. The newspapers of both France and England were full of
this melancholy event; and in the year 1823, Monsieur Hyacinthe
Langlois, of Rouen, published an account of it, together with some
views (indifferently lithographised) of the progress of the burning.
"It should seem (says Mons. Licquet) that the author had a
presentiment of what was speedily to take place:--for the rest, the
same species of destruction threatens all similar edifices, for the