The children's tombs, one on each side of the altar of St. Denis, are much smaller than these, though wrought more beautifully. These beside you are the _only two Bronze tombs of her Men of the great ages_, left in France! 24. And they are the tombs of the pastors of her people, who built for her the first perfect temple to her God. The Bishop Everard's is on your right, and has engraved round the border of it this inscription:[53]-- "Who fed the people, who laid the foundations of this Structure, to whose care the City was given, Here, in ever-breathing balm of fame, rests Everard. A man compassionate to the afflicted, the widow's protector, the orphan's Guardian. Whom he could, he recreated with gifts. To words of men, If gentle, a lamb; if violent, a lion; if proud, biting steel." [Footnote 53: I steal again from the Abbe Roze the two inscriptions,--with his introductory notice of the evilly-inspired interference with them. "La tombe d'Evrard de Fouilloy, (died 1222,) coulee en bronze en plein-relief, etait supportee des le principe, par des monstres engages dans une maconnerie remplissant le dessous du monument, pour indiquer que cet eveque avait pose les fondements de la Cathedrale. Un _architecte malheureusement inspire_ a ose arracher la maconnerie, pour qu'on ne vit plus la main du prelat fondateur, a la base de l'edifice. "On lit, sur la bordure, l'inscription suivante en beaux caracteres du XIII^e siecle: "'Qui populum pavit, qui fundam[=e]ta locavit Hui[=u]s structure, cuius fuit urbs data cure Hic redolens nardus, fama requiescit Ewardus, Vir pius ahflictis, vidvis tutela, relictis Custos, quos poterat recreabat munere; vbis, Mitib agnus erat, tumidis leo, lima supbis.' "Geoffrey d'Eu (died 1237) est represente comme son predecesseur en habits episcopaux, mais le dessous du bronze supporte par des chimeres est evide, ce prelat ayant eleve l'edifice jusqu'aux voutes. Voici la legende gravee sur la bordure: "'Ecce premunt humile Gaufridi membra cubile. Seu minus aut simile nobis parat omnibus ille; Quem laurus gemina decoraverat, in medicina Lege q[=u] divina, decuerunt cornua bina; Clare vir Augensis, quo sedes Ambianensis Crevit in imensis; in coelis auctus, Amen, sis.' Tout est a etudier dans ces deux monuments; tout y est d'un haut interet, quant au dessin, a la sculpture, a l'agencement des ornements et des draperies." In saying above that Geoffroy of Eu returned thanks in the Cathedral for its completion, I meant only that he had brought at least the choir into condition for service: "Jusqu'aux voutes" may or may not mean that the vaulting was closed.]