Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This ebook was produced from scanned images of public domain material at Internet Archive.) [Certain typographical errors have been corrected (see list at the end of this etext.). Except for a few normalizations, the spelling of French words and names has not been corrected, but left as the writer wrote them.] CATHEDRAL CITIES OF FRANCE [Illustration: LÂON, VIEW FROM THE PLAIN] CATHEDRAL CITIES OF FRANCE BY HERBERT MARSHALL, R.W.S. AND HESTER MARSHALL WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY HERBERT MARSHALL, R.W.S. [Illustration] TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK CO., Limited 1907 COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY _Published September, 1907_ NOTE The following chapters are the result of notes put together during summers spent in France in the course of the last five years. They are not intended to mark out any particular geographical scheme, though considered as isolated suggestions they may possibly prove useful to the intending traveller; nor do they aim at covering all the Cathedral cities of France. The authors are indebted for much valuable help from the following books: Viollet-le-Duc’s “Dictionnaire de l’Architecture”; Mr. Phené Spiers’s “Architecture East and West”; Mr. Francis Bond’s “Gothic Architecture in England”; Mr. Henry James’s “Little Tour in France”; Mr. Cecil Headlam’s “Story of Chartres”; Freeman’s “History of the Norman Conquest” and “Sketches of French Travel”; Dr. Whewell’s “Notes on a Tour in Picardy and Normandy”; M. Guilhermy’s “Itineraire archéologique de Paris”; M. Hoffbauer’s “Paris à travers les ages”; M. Enlart’s “Architecture Réligieuse”; Mr. Walter Lonergan’s “Historic Churches of Paris”; the “Chronicles” of Froissart and Monstrelet; and to the letters in _The Times_ of its war correspondent, 1870 and 1871. H. M. M. and H. M. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A FRENCH CATHEDRAL CITY 1 II BOULOGNE TO AMIENS 15 III LÂON, RHEIMS, AND SOISSONS 38 IV ROUEN 62 V EVREUX AND LISIEUX 88 VI BAYEUX 104 VII ST. LÔ AND COUTANCES 128 VIII LE MANS 151 IX ANGERS 169 X TOURS AND BLOIS 181 XI CHARTRES 201 XII ORLÉANS, BOURGES, AND NEVERS 218 XIII MOULINS, LIMOGES, AND PÉRIGUEUX 245