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[ Page 176. Chronique de Sabit-Denis.]
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[ Page 191. Instead of to give it would be better to write here arc en tiers-point, so as not to annoy the archaeologists. But all my readers are not archaeologists and would not be interested in the fine distinctions among pointed arches.]
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[ Page 194. This history is a reprint from the Mémoires du Comité archéologique de Noyon (Vol. XVII); it is adorned with numerous illustrations which show different aspects of the cathedral.—The members of a recent Congress of the French Society of Archaeology met at Novon. The Guide published for members of the Congress contains short and precise notes upon the different monuments which were visited. That which relates to the Cathedral of Noyon was written by the Director of the Society, M. Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis.]
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[ Page 201. The stone is broken at the end of the seventh line.]
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[ Page 206. I have taken these dates and some other facts from an article by M. Fernand Blanchard, Secretary of the Archaeological, Historical and Scientific Society of Soissons (1905). This pamphlet contains a very clear summary of the history of the monument and an excellent description of the ruins.]