"In the year of Grace, Twelve Hundred And twenty, the work, then falling to ruin, Was first begun again. Then was, of this Bishopric Everard the blessed Bishop. And, King of France, Louis, Who was son to Philip the Wise. He who was Master of the Work Was called Master Robert, And called, beyond that, of Luzarches. Master Thomas was after him, Of Cormont. And after him, his son, Master Reginald, who to be put Made--at this point--this reading. When the Incarnation was of account Thirteen hundred, less twelve, which it failed of." In which legend, while you stand where once it was written (it was removed--to make the old pavement more polite--in the year, I sorrowfully observe, of my own earliest tour on the Continent, 1825, when I had not yet turned my attention to Ecclesiastical Architecture), these points are noticeable--if you have still a little patience. 14. 'The work'--_i.e._, the Work of Amiens in especial, her cathedral, was 'decheant,' falling to ruin, for the--I cannot at once say--fourth, fifth, or what time,--in the year 1220. For it was a wonderfully difficult matter for little Amiens to get this piece of business fairly done, so hard did the Devil pull against her. She built her first Bishop's church (scarcely more than St. Firmin's tomb-chapel) about the year 350, just outside the railway station on the road to Paris;[46] then, after being nearly herself destroyed, chapel and all, by the Frank invasion, having recovered, and converted her Franks, she built another and a properly called cathedral, where this one stands now, under Bishop St. Save (St. Sauve, or Salve). But even this proper cathedral was only of wood, and the Normans burnt it in 881. Rebuilt, it stood for 200 years; but was in great part destroyed by lightning in 1019. Rebuilt again, it and the town were more or less burnt together by lightning, in 1107,--my authority says calmly, "un incendie provoque par la meme cause detruisit _la ville_, et une partie de la cathedrale." The 'partie' being rebuilt once more, the whole was again reduced to ashes, "reduite en cendre par le feu de ciel en 1218, ainsi que tous les titres, les martyrologies, les calendriers, et les Archives de l'Eveche et du Chapitre." [Footnote 46: At St. Acheul. See the first chapter of this book, and the "Description Historique de la Cathedrale d'Amiens," by A. P. M. Gilbert. 8vo, Amiens, 1833, pp. 5-7.]