On three sides of the latter is a curious house with wooden walls built about the year 1492 by a rich cloth merchant, Nicolas Fauvel, mayor of the city. This house, known as the =House of the White Gable=, is shown at F on the detailed plan. Abutting on the main building, which is the original structure, a kind of corbel-work gable was added over the exit from the Passage Gossart. This was probably used by the mayor as a tribune from which to harangue the people gathered together in the courtyard. [Illustration: HOUSE OF THE WHITE GABLE. (_Cliché LL_)] 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. [Illustration: ST. GERMAIN CHURCH AND RUE ST.-GERMAIN.] House of the "Sagittaire" The south façade, looking on the street, as well as that of the apse, suffered badly throughout their entire length. [Illustration: ST.-GERMAIN CHURCH: DETAILS OF PORCH.] Although the main body of the building remained standing, most of the ornamental carving was broken and the doorway torn open, while all the stained glass was destroyed, together with the greater part of the mullions of the windows. Inside, the vaults were pierced in several places. The doorway in the Rue Pingré is uninjured (_photo above_). Part of the ornamental carving is of great delicacy, but the statues are modern. The door is of wood with Renaissance carvings. A square tower leaning towards the North flanks the doorway. The interior of the church is beautifully proportioned and very simple in arrangement. The choir, slightly more modern than the nave, dates from 1478. The lateral chapels contain some 16th century stained glass and a reproduction of the Burial Scene dated 1506.