subject. In the mean while, why is GALLIC
ART inert?

[48] The choir was formerly separated from the surrounding chapels, or
rather from the space between it and the chapels, by a superb brass
grating, full of the most beautiful arabesque ornaments--another
testimony of the magnificent spirit of the Cardinal and Prime Minister
of Louis XII.: whose arms, as well as the figure of his patron, St.
George, were seen in the centre of every compartment ... The
Revolution has not left a vestige behind!

[49] [In this edition, I put the above passage in _Italics_,--to
mark, that, within three years of writing it, the spire was consumed
by LIGHTNING. The newspapers of both France and England were full of
this melancholy event; and in the year 1823, Monsieur Hyacinthe
Langlois, of Rouen, published an account of it, together with some
views (indifferently lithographised) of the progress of the burning.
"It should seem (says Mons. Licquet) that the author had a
presentiment of what was speedily to take place:--for the rest, the
same species of destruction threatens all similar edifices, for the
want of conductors." I possess a fragment of the lead of the roof, as
it was collected after a state of _fusion_--and sent over to me
by some friend at Rouen. The fusion has caused portions of the lead to
assume a variety of fantastic shapes--not _altogether_ unlike a
gothic building.]

[50] Let me add that the whole length of the cathedral is about four
hundred and forty feet; and the transept about one hundred and
seventy-five; English measure. The height of the nave is about ninety,
and of the lantern one hundred and sixty-eight feet, English. The
length of the nave is two hundred and twenty-eight feet.

[51] He died in 1531. Both the ancient and yet existing inscriptions are
inserted by Gilbert, from Pommeraye and Farin; and formerly there was
seen, in the middle of the monument, the figure of the Seneschal
habited as a Count, with all the insignia of his dignity. But this did
not outlive the Revolution.

[52] It must be admitted that Diana, when she caused the verses

_Indivulsa tibi quondam et fidissima conjux
Vt fuit in thalamo, sic erit in tumulo_.

to be engraved upon the tomb of the Seneschal, might well have "moved
the bile" of the pious Benedictine Pommeraye, and have excited the
taunting