[40] Paul Verlaine, Choix de Poésies (Paris, Charpentier, 1912).
[41] “The privileged land where the Seine, the Oise, and the Marne approach their waters gave France its laws and political unity, its literary language with its incomparable clarity, and its Gothic art.”—Ernest Lavisse, Histoire de France.
[42] Congrès Archéologique, 1905, p. 131, “Compiègne.”
[43] The people of the Valois country cried “Noël!” as Jeanne passed. And as she rode between the great Dunois and the archbishop of Rheims she exclaimed, with emotion: “Here is a good people! Happy would I be, when I come to die, to be laid here to rest.” “Know you when you will die, Jeanne?” said the archbishop. “I know not. I am in the hands of God,” she made answer. “I would it pleased God, my creator, that I could go back now to serve under my father and my mother, and to keep their sheep with my brothers, who would be right glad to see me home.”—From the testimony of the Comte de Dunois, in 1455, Jeanne’s companion-in-arms in 1429.
[44] Congrès Archéologique, 1905, p. 170; E. Lefèvre-Pontalis, Histoire de la cathédrale de Noyon, (1901); Vitet et Ramée, Monographie de l’église Notre Dame de Noyon (Paris, 1845), 2 vols., 4to and folio; Brière, Précis descriptive et historique de la cathédrale de Noyon (1899); Camille Enlart, Hôtels de Villes et beffrois du nord de la France (Paris, H. Laurens, 1919); Marcel Aubert, Noyon et ses environs (Paris, Longuet, 1919).
[45] Noyon was made a bishopric in the VI century, when St. Médard translated the see from St. Quentin, before the advance of the Huns and the Vandals. St. Médard gave the veil to Queen Radegund in the Merovingian cathedral of Noyon. Two Carolingian cathedrals stood in succession on the site: in the first, Charlemagne was consecrated king, 768, Noyon being his residence before Aix-la-Chapelle; in the second church, which rose after a Norman sacking, Hugues Capet was elected king shortly before 1000—the first monarch of the House of Capet, which was to rule over France during seven hundred years. Since the Revolution the sees of Noyon, Senlis, and Laon have been suppressed.
[46] The abbey church of Ourscamp is a ruin, but with the choir and ambulatory of the end of the XIII century partly standing. Where once were the piers of the nave have been planted two rows of poplars. Like Longpont and Royaumont, it was a Cistercian church that paid no heed to St. Bernard’s strictures on lavish architecture. The former infirmary of the monastery, now used as a factory, is one of the most graceful civic halls of the age (c. 1240); Peigné-Delacour, Histoire de l’abbaye de Notre Dame d’Ourscamp (1876), in 4to; Congrés Archéologique, 1905, p. 165, on Ourscamp.
[47] Camille Enlart, De l’influence germanique dans les premiers monuments gothiques de la France, 1902.
[48] Marcel Aubert, Monographie de la cathédrale de Senlis (1907). He has also described Senlis in the collection, Petites monographies (1910); Congrès Archéologique, 1905, p. 89, E. Lefèvre-Pontalis; passim, 1877, vol. 44, “L’architecture dans le Valois,” Anthyme Saint-Paul; E. Lefèvre-Pontalis, À travers le Beauvaisis et le Valois (1907); Émile Lambin, “La Cathédrale de Senlis,” in Revue de l’art chrétien, 1898, vol. 47; Abbé Eugène Müller, Senlis et ses environs (1897); André Hallays, En flanant à travers la France. Autour de Paris (Paris, 1910); G. Fleury, Études sur les portails imagés du XII siècle (Mamers, Fleury et Dangin, 1904); Histoire littéraire de la France (Paris, 1835), vol. 18, p. 33, “Guérin, évêque de Senlis.”
[49] Emile Lambin, La Flore des grandes cathédrales (Paris, 1897).