in his time, the surfaces of the more delicate parts, especially of
the human features, might not have sustained the injuries which time
and accident now seem to have inflicted on them. [A beautiful effort
in the graphic way representing the entire interior front of this
interesting mansion, is said to be published at Rouen.]

[64] In the previous edition of this work, there appeared a facsimile of a
small portion of this bas-relief, representing--as I imagine--the
setting out of Francis to meet Henry. Nothing, as far as correctness
of detail goes, can give a more faithful resemblance of the PRECISE
STATE in which the original appears: the defaced and the entire parts
being represented with equal fidelity. Mons. Langlois has given a
plate of the entire façade or front--in outline--with great ability;
but so small as to give little or no notion of the character of the
original.

[65] In Ducarel's time, "the ground story consisted of a great quadrangle
surrounded with booksellers shops. On one side of it a stone staircase
led to a large and lofty room, which, in its internal as well as
external appearance, resembled, though in miniature, Westminster Hall.
Here (continues Ducarel) I saw several gentlemen of the long robe, in
their gowns and bands, walking up and down with briefs in their hands,
and making a great show of business." _Anglo-Norman Antiquities_,
p. 32. [According to Mons. Licquet, this "singularly curious hall" was
begun to be built in 1493. It was afterwards, and is still called,
_la Salle des Procureurs_.]

[66] _the choicest library_] Monsieur Riaux, Archiviste de la Chambre
de Commerce. This amiable man unites a love of literature with that of
architectural antiquities. The library of M. Le Prevost is however as