[125] "Curiosities of Literature," Disraeli, quoted in "Abélard and Héloïse," Temple Classics. The tomb was removed later to Père la Chaise, the great cemetery of Paris. [126] Duke Philippe le Bon was in Flanders at the time; but he had sent Toison d'Or to officiate as judge in his place. Barante, Tome VII., p. 284. [127] Olivier de la Marche. Mémoires, Petitot's edition, cap. xxi., pp. 5-11. [128] De Barante, Tome VII., pp. 284-5. [129] Petit, Tome VI., p. 20. [Illustration: Heading, chapter XI; The Saône near Tournus] CHAPTER XI TOURNUS BY THE SAONE Tournus is an attractive old town, lying asleep on a hill beside the Saône. Through it ran, north and south, the old Roman road of Agrippa. Its chief monument, the church of the ancient abbey of St. Philibert, whether viewed from within or from without, is one of the most striking examples I know, of the barbaric majesty of early Burgundian art. The grim façade, with its two-storied narthex of three bays--the oldest Clunisian porch--and its machicolations and towers, recalls the fortified churches of Provence and Languedoc, built when the southern land still shook with fear at the thought of the northern "crusaders," or the sea-pirates of the south. Nor does the sight of the interior do other than confirm that impression. Passing through the lower storey of the gloomy portal, that might well have served to imprison the bodies of men--just as, symbolically, it was a shadowy ante-chamber, a purgatory of souls not yet fitted for the full light of Paradise--we emerged into a church whose rugged strength had in it something awful and menacing, suggestive of a period even more barbaric than that eleventh century in which the nave and narthex were built. This impression may possibly have a historical as well as an imaginative basis, owing to the fact that the church has been twice destroyed--first by the Huns, and later by fire--both disasters occurring so soon after construction, that the original design may have been adhered to closely.[130]