odern. Of the jewelled splendour of the western rose
and of the two great rose windows of the transepts the eye will never
tire. With every changing light new beauties and new combinations of
colour reveal themselves. Those who care to read the subjects will
discern in the north transept rose, incidents depicted in the life of
the Virgin, and eighteen founders and benefactors: in the south are
apostles and bishops crowned by angels.

[Illustration: INTERIOR OF NOTRE DAME.]

We return to the Porte Rouge in the Rue du Cloitre opposite which is
the Rue Massillon, where at Nos. 4 and 6 we may note some remains of
the cloisters and canons' dwellings, once a veritable city within a
city, fifty-one houses with gardens sequestered within a wall having
four gates. We continue to the Rue Chanoinesse, where, No. 10, is the
site of Canon Fulbert's house: at No. 18, by the courtesy of Messieurs
Allez Freres, we may visit the curious old fifteenth-century tower of
Dagobert[181] which marks the site of the old port of St. Landry and
affords a fine view of the north side of Notre Dame. We return to No.
10 and descend the Rue des Chantres to the Quai aux Fleurs: at No. 9,
the site of the house of Abelard and Heloise, an inscription recalls
the names of the unhappy lovers,

"... for ever sad, for ever dear,
Still breathed in sighs, still ushered with a tear."

[Footnote 181: Now (1911) demolished.]

We turn westward along the Quai and ascend on our L., the narrow Rue
de la Colombe, across which a double line of stones traces the
position of the Gallo-Roman wall, that enclosed the Cite. We continue
to ascend, and on our L., No. 26 Rue Chanoinesse, we enter a small
court where we find a portion of the old pavement of St. Aignan's
church, with the almost effaced lineaments on the tombstones of those,
now forgotten, who were doubtless famous churchmen in their time, and
where St. Bernard wept a whole day, fearing that God had withdrawn
from him the power of converting souls. This faint trace of the past
wealth of churches remains, but where are the sanctuaries of Ste.
Genevieve des Ardents, St. Pierre des Arces, St. Denis of the Prison,
St. Germain le Vieux, Ste. Croix, St. Symphorien, St. Martial, St.
Bartholomew, and the church of the Barnabites, which replaced that of
St. Anne, which replaced the old Abbey church of St. Eloy, all
clustering around their parent church of Our Lady like nuns under
their patroness' mantle? Until c