Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet
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Gilbert Rouen, Ed. Frère, 1837, 8vo. with 3 plates.--_Essay on ancient
and modern painting on glass_, etc., by E.H. Langlois. Rouen, Ed. Frère, 1832. 8vo, with 7 plates.] [Footnote 5: It is an error: Rollon did not die till the year 931 or 932.] [Footnote 6: _Monuments of the cathedral of Rouen_, by A. Deville. Rouen, N. Periaux, 1837, 8vo, with 12 plates.] [Footnote 7: O Louis de Brezé, Diana of Poitiers, afflicted by the death of her husband, has raised this monument to your memory, she was your inseparable companion, your very faithful spouse in the conjugal state, and will be equally so in the tomb.] [Footnote 8: That is to say that the pope Julias IInd was of the house of Rovero (_Quercus_).] [Footnote 9: The cathedral possesses also several other remarkable pictures; we distinguish amongst others, an _Annunciation_, by Letellier of Rouen, nephew of the celebrated Poussin: it is placed in the second chapel of the left aisle, on entering by the great portal. To the right and left of the choir, we find a _Samaritan_, by Charles Tardieu, and _The lying in the Sepulchre_, by Poisson.] [Footnote 10: Mr Deville makes the dates between the years 1480 to 1482, according to the manuscript capitulary registers of the cathedral.] [Footnote 11: We perceive two counterforts, which have been lately |
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