Architectural Antiquities of NormandyTurner, Dawson
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Architectural Antiquities of Normandy
Turner, Dawson
Architecture -- France -- Normandy; Architecture, Norman
plus d'égard à la foi de la suppliante qu'à son propre mérite, il
invoqua le secours du saint Esprit, fit avec confiance le signe de la
croix sur les yeux de l'Aveugle, et au même instant la vüe lui fut
renduë à la grande admiration de tous les assistans, qui bénirent et
remerciérent Dieu de leur avoir donné un Pasteur qui prouvoit sa
vocation par un si grand Miracle, en reconnoissance duquel on éleva au
même lieu deux Statuës, l'une de Saint Lo, et l'autre de la femme
guérie, telles qu'on les voit encore aujourd'hui au Portail de l'Eglise,
où on a aussi conservé fort soigneusement la Pierre sur laquelle étoit
Saint Lo lorsqu'il opera ce Miracle. C'est encore sur elle que les
Seigneurs Evêques de Coûtances s'arrêtent à leur premiere entrée, pour
faire les sermens et promesses accoutumées en pareille Céremonie, et
qu'ils y reçoivent les complimens et applaudissemens de la Ville, pour
conserver la mémoire d'un si grand Miracle."
PLATE LXXXIX. AND XC.
CASTLE OF FALAISE.
[Illustration: Plate 89. CASTLE OF FALAISE.
_North West View._]
Whoever can take pleasure in the wildest extravagancies of absurd
fiction, displayed in theories destitute of even the slender basis of
tradition, yet raised with plausibility, connected with ingenuity, and
supported by learning, may find abundant gratification in the early
history of Falaise. The town, as stated in a manuscript gazetteer of
Normandy, written in the seventeenth century, was not only among the
most ancient in Gaul, but was founded by one of the grandsons of Noah.
According to another yet more grave authority, its antiquity soars still
higher, and mounts to the period of the deluge itself. It so far exceeds
that of the Roman empire, that, long before the building of the immortal
city, colonies were sent from Falaise into Italy, where they were known
by the Aborigines, under the names of _Falisci_, or _Falerii_. A third
writer, M. Langevin, author of the _Recherches Historiques sur Falaise_,
assures his readers that Falaise was, from time immemorial, a station
consecrated to religion; and, in a dissertation full of the most
recondite information relative to the worship of Belenus and Abrasax,
Isis and Felé, he so connects and intermingles the rites of those
deities with the place and its vicinity, that he can scarcely be said to
do it less honor than his predecessors.
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