a history of his life, which is yet further carried out in the windows
and on the bas reliefs of the pulpit. The high altar under the rose
window is very finely moulded, with its canopied niches and beautiful
tracery. There are many statues of saints in the church, dressed in
Breton costumes, that would no doubt astonish them if they came back to
life and saw themselves in effigy. Many parts of the church are
decorated with wonderful carvings of vegetables, fruit and flowers.

But the general impression is heavy and sombre, the true Kersanton
effect and colour. Time and the elements have softened, subdued and
beautified the exterior; but the tone of the interior, unexposed to the
elements, remains what it originally was: wanting in refinement and
romance; it is the beauty of elaborate execution that imposes upon one.
All the windows are remarkable for their lovely Flamboyant tracery, that
of the rose window being especially fine and delicate.

The exterior is far finer, far more wonderful. One never grew tired of
gazing; of examining it from every point of view. It was a dream picture
and a marvel. Nothing we saw in Brittany compared with it, excepting the
Cathedral of Quimper. Before it stretched the dreary plain; behind it
were the humble houses composing the village, very much out of sight and
not at all aggressive.

On the south side was the Gothic college built by Anne of Brittany; and
here she and Francis the First lodged, when they came on a pilgrimage to
le Folgoët. It is a Gothic building of the fifteenth century, with an
octagonal turret of rare design; but its beauty is of the past. We found
it in the hands of the restorers, who were doing their best to ruin it.
Originally it harmonised wonderfully with the church, but soon the
harmony will have disappeared for ever.