This tribune (photo opposite) is supported by a half-vault of wood, the arches of which abut against the stone corbels. At the outside corner, a console terminating in a flying angel forms a pendative, and is decorated with curious carving depicting a man in the dress of a 15th century burgess, having three heads.
One of his feet is bare, the other shod. On the opposite console is the figure of a man on horseback, probably Nicolas Fauvel, wearing the mayoral robes of Amiens. Part of the house with wooden walls was destroyed by a bomb, but the mayor’s tribune escaped uninjured.
Returning to the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, the tourist should turn to the right to see the Ancien belfry of the City of Amiens (E on detailed plan).
The lower portion only is old. Its heavy 18th century steeple contains a bell weighing eleven tons.
Leaving the Belfry behind, continue to follow the Rue du Chapeau de Violettes as far as the Rue St. Germain, at the corner of which is St. Germain’s Church (D on detailed plan), historical monument. A fine building in the Flamboyant style, dating from the middle of the 15th century, it was seriously damaged by a bomb which fell in the Rue St. Germain on the night of the 13th-14th May, 1918, destroying five houses.
