Our Fathers Have Told Us / Part I. The Bible of Amiens - John Ruskin

A.D.		PAGE
250.	Rise of the Franks	[33]
301	St. Firmin comes to Amiens	[5]
332	St. Martin	[15]
345	St. Jerome born	[75]
350	First church at Amiens, over St. Firmin's grave	[99]
358	Franks defeated by Julian near Strasburg	[44]
405	St. Jerome's Bible	[50]
420	St. Jerome dies	[78 seq]
421	St. Genevieve born. Venice founded	[27]
445	Franks cross the Rhine and take Amiens	[7]
447	Merovée king at Amiens	[7,8]
451	Battle of Chalons. Attila defeated by Aëtius	[7]
457	Merovée dies. Childeric king at Amiens	[8]
466	Clovis born	[7]
476	Roman Empire in Italy ended by Odoacer	[8]
481	Roman Empire ended in France	[9]
	Clovis crowned at Amiens	[8,27]
	St. Benedict born	[27]
485	Battle of Soissons. Clovis defeats Syagrius	[8,52]
486	Syagrius dies at the court of Alaric	[52]
489	Battle of Verona. Theodoric defeats Odoacer	[54]
493	Clovis marries Clotilde	[9]
496	Battle of Tolbiac. Clovis defeats the Alemanni	[53]
	Clovis crowned at Rheims by St. Rémy	[9]
	Clovis baptized by St. Rémy	[13]
508	Battle of Poitiers. Clovis defeats the Visigoths under Alaric	[9]
	Death of Alaric

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APPENDIX II.

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REFERENCES EXPLANATORY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING CHAPTER IV.

The quatrefoils on the foundation of the west front of Amiens Cathedral, described in the course of the fourth chapter, had never been engraved or photographed in any form accessible to the public until last year, when I commissioned M. Kaltenbacher (6, Passage du Commerce), who had photographed them for M. Viollet le Duc, to obtain negatives of the entire series, with the central pedestal of the Christ.

The proofs are entirely satisfactory to me, and extremely honourable to M. Kaltenbacher's skill: and it is impossible to obtain any more instructive and interesting, in exposition of the manner of central thirteenth-century sculpture.