_Cy gist_ M. ALEXANDRE DE BERNEUAL,
_Maistre des oeuvres de Massonnerie._

[55] Even Dr. Ducarel became warm--on contemplating this porch! "The porch
at the south entrance into the church (says he) is much more worthy of
the spectator's attention, being highly enriched with architectonic
ornaments; particularly two beautiful cul de lamps, which from the
combination of a variety of spiral dressings, as they hang down from
the vaulted roof, produce a very pleasing effect." p. 28.

[56] Consult the account given by M. Le Prevost in the "_Précis
Analytique des Travaux de l'Academie, &c. de Rouen_," for the year
1816, p. 151, &c.

[57] Farin tells us that you could go from the top of the lantern to the
cross, or to the summit of the belfry, "outside, without a ladder; so
admirable was the workmanship." "Strangers (adds he) took models of it
for the purpose of getting them engraved, and they were sold publicly
at Rome." _Hist. de la Ville de Rouen_, 1738, 4to. vol. ii. p. 154.
There are thirteen chapels within this church; of which however the
building cannot be traced lower than quite the beginning of the XVIth
century. The extreme length and width of the interior is about 155 by
82 feet English. Even in Du Four's time the population of this parish
was very great, and its cemetery (adds he) was the first and most
regular in Rouen. He gives a brief, but glowing description of it--"on
va tout autour par des galeries couvertes et pavées; et, deux de ces
galeries sont decorées de deux autels," &c. p. 150.

Alas! time--or the revolution--has annihilated all this. Let me