After the cathedral and Saint-Ouen, this town possesses no other monument which excites more the curiosity of french or English antiquarians. The first person who described the famous bas-reliefs of the _Camp du Drap-d'Or_, which ornament the exterior of the ancient gallery of the edifice, is dom Montfaucon in the 4th volume of his _Monuments of the french Monarchy_. He only did it, on the indications given by the abbé Noel, who gave the first explanations of these sculptures. After Montfaucon came Dr Ducarel, who has only copied the learned benedictine. Dibdin, the British antiquarian, has also paid his tribute of admiration to the hotel du Bourgtheroulde, in his _Bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour through France_. Cotman and Dawson Turner, his countrymen, have given a place to this edifice in their respective publications. M. de Jolimont, in his _most remarquable monuments in the town of Rouen_ devotes an article and two engravings to this edifice. MM. Nodier, Taylor and de Cailleux have enriched their _picturesque and romantic tour_, with a collection of lithographic engravings representing the celebrated interview between Francis Ist and Henry VIIIth, that took place in 1520 in a field situated between Guines and Ardres in Picardy. Mr A. Le Prevost has also written learned memoirs on the hotel du Bourgtheroulde. He has fixed the date of the building (about the end of the XVth century), and revealed the name of the founder (Guillaume-le-Roux), and facilitated the numerous descriptions which have been made of it. The most complete, is that given by M. Delaquérière, in his work entitled: _Historical description of the houses of Rouen_. In the short description that we give of this remarkable building, we must notice the bas-reliefs, six in number, which adorn the elegant hexagonal tower, in the inner court and represent pastoral scenes. We must also add that interpreters make a great mistake when they inform strangers that the celebrated maid of Orleans (burnt in 1431) was judged and imprisoned in this building. ANCIENT ABBEY OF SAINT AMAND, _Rue Saint-Amand._ NON EST HIC ALIVD NISI DOMVS DEI. The pious monks who caused this simple and touching inscription to be engraven over the gate of their monastery, never supposed that one day it would offer the most strange of _solecisms_. Enter this house and you will have great difficulty in believing that you visit one of the most celebrated abbeys in Rouen.