Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1

by Dawson Turner

A small north-west view, engraved by Pouncey, in the first volume of Gough's Alien Priories;

And the west front, on an extremely reduced; scale, in Seroux

d'Agincourt's Histoire de l'Art par les Monumens, Architecture, t. 64. f. 21. p. 68.

[74] This great benefactor to Rouen died the following year, deeply lamented by the inhabitants, and generally so by France; but, above all, regretted by Louis XIIth, his sovereign, whom, to use the words of Guicciardini, he served as oracle and authority. The author of the History of the Chevalier Bayard, is still louder in his praise.—The western facade of the cathedral was not finished till 1530, twenty years after his death.

[75] A representation of this has recently been published from an engraving on stone by Langlois.

[76] Histoire de l'Eglise Cathédrale de Rouen, p. 50.

[77] Noel, Essais sur le Département de la Seine Inférieure, II. p. 239.

[78] Millin, Histoire Métallique de la Révolution Française, t. 22. f. 84.

[79] Histoire des Archevêques de Rouen, folio 1667.

[80] Anglo-Norman Antiquities, p. 12.