To-day it is cruciform after the late elongated style, with lengthy transepts and lofty aisles. The chief feature to be observed of its exterior is its heavy square tower (187 feet) of four stories. It is not beautiful, and was rebuilt in the middle nineteenth century, but it is imposing and groups satisfactorily enough with the _ensemble_ round about. Beneath this tower is a fine porch worked in Crussol marble. There is no triforium or clerestory. In the choir is a cenotaph in white marble to Pius VI., who was exiled in Valence, and who died here in 1799. It is surmounted by a bust by Canova, whose work it has become the fashion to admire sedulously. VII CATHÉDRALE DE VIVIERS The bishopric of Viviers is a suffragan of Avignon, and is possessed of a tiny cathedral church, which, in spite of its diminutive proportions, overtops quite all the other buildings of this ancient capital of the Vivarais. The city is a most picturesque setting for any shrine, with the narrow, tortuous streets--though slummy ones--winding to the cliff-top on which the city sits high above the waters of the Rhône. The choir of this cathedral is the only portion which warrants remark. It is of the fourteenth century, and has no aisles. It is in the accepted Gothic style, but this again is coerced by the Romanesque flanking tower, which, to all intents and purposes, when viewed from afar, might well be taken for a later Renaissance work. A nearer view dissects this tower into really beautiful parts. The base is square, but above--in an addition of the fifteenth century--it blooms forth into an octagon of quite original proportions. In the choir are some Gobelin tapestries and paintings by Mignard; otherwise there are no artistic attributes to be remarked. VIII NOTRE DAME D'ORANGE The independent principality of Orange (which had existed since the eleventh century), with the papal State of Avignon, the tiny Comté Venaissin, and a small part of Provence were welded into the Department of Vaucluse in the redistribution of political divisions under Napoleon I. The house of Nassau retains to-day the honorary title of Princes of Orange, borne by the heir apparent to the throne of Holland. More anciently the city was known as the Roman _Arausio_, and is yet famous for its remarkable Roman remains, the chief of which are its triumphal arch and theatre--one of the largest and most magnificent, if not actually the largest, of its era. The history of the church at Orange is far more interesting and notable than that of its rather lame apology for a cathedral of rank. The see succumbed in 1790 in favour of Avignon, an archbishopric, and Valence, one of its suffragans. The persecution and oppression of the Protestants of Orange and Dauphiné are well-recorded facts of history.