A superb tower ends off the _croisillon_ on the north and rises to the height of one hundred and ninety-seven feet. "Next to the west front and the domed roofing of the interior, this tower ranks as the third most curious and remarkable feature of this unusual church." This tower, in spite of its appealing properties, is curiously enough not the original to which the previous descriptive lines applied; but their echo may be heard to-day with respect to the present tower, which is a reconstruction, of the same materials, and after the same manner, so far as possible, as the original. As the most notable and peculiar details of the interior, will be remarked the cupolas of the roof, and the lantern at the crossing, which is pierced by twelve windows. For sheer beauty, and its utile purpose as well, this great _lanthorn_ is further noted as being most unusual in either the Romanesque or Gothic churches of France. The choir is apse-ended and is surrounded by four chapels of no great prominence or beauty. The south transept has a _tour_ in embryo, which, had it been completed, would doubtless have been the twin of that which terminates the transept on the north. The foundations of the episcopal residence, which is immediately beside the cathedral (restored in the nineteenth century), are very ancient. In its garden stands a colossal statue to Comte Jean, the father of François I. Angoulême was the residence of the Black Prince after the battle of Poitiers, though no record remains as to where he may have lodged. A house in the Rue de Genève has been singled out in the past as being where John Calvin lived in 1533, but it is not recognizable to-day. XII NOTRE DAME DE MOULINS "_Les Bourbonnais sont aimables, mais vains, légers et facilement oublieux, avec rien d'excessif, rien d'exubérance dans leur nature._" --ANDRÉ ROLLAND. Until he had travelled through Bourbonnais, "the sweetest part of France--in the hey-day of the vintage," said Sterne, "I never felt the distress of plenty." This is an appropriate enough observation to have been promulgated by a latter-day traveller. Here the abundance which apparently pours forth for every one's benefit knows no diminution one season from another. One should not allow his pen to ramble to too great an extent in this vein, or he will soon say with Sterne: "Just Heaven! it will fill up twenty volumes,--and alas, there are but a few small pages!" [Illustration: NOTRE DAME _de MOULINS_]