The _façade_ in the Rue S. Martin is in the Flamboyant style, and not without some beauty, with its pinnacles and turrets, its niches and statuettes; but the most striking part of the church is the richly-sculptured doorway in the Rue Aumaire, a mass of niches, figures of Angels, and Flamboyant ornament of the most elaborate kind--birds, baskets of flowers, borne by pious little personages, and every kind of foliage, reminding us of the works of Germain Pilon. The interior shows the change of style from shafts without capitals to the latest development in the way of Doric columns. The High Altar is ornamented with Corinthian columns, some stucco Angels by Jacques Sarazin, and a picture of _the Assumption_ by Simon Vouet. The best picture in the church is M. Bonnat's early work of _S. Vincent de Paul_. An old panel of a _Calvary_ is a very good specimen of one of the unknown artists of the 16th century. A few celebrities were buried in S. Nicolas; the _savant_ Guillaume Budé, who died in 1540; the philosopher Pierre Gassendi; the historians Henri and Adrien de Valois; and Mdlle. de Scudéry; but their monuments have vanished. On the pavement are some stones bearing the names of Rochechouart, Crillon, Labriffe, Potier de Novion, Mesmes, and several others. Here is one of the many curious epitaphs: LE CIEL L'ESTIMENT TROP POUR LA LAISSER PLUS LONTEMPS MORTELE, LAISSANT A SON ÉPOUX UNE FILLE POUR GAGE DE LEUR ÉTROITE ET INMORTELE AMITIÉ, DANS LAQU'ELLE IL SURVIT POUR PLEURER LE RESTE DE SES JOURS SA DURE SEPARATION D'AVEC CETTE CHERE ÉPOUSE, QUI ÉTOIT RECOMANDABLE, PAR SA TRES GRANDE DOUCEUR, SA VIE PURE ET INOCENTE, ET SA PRUDENCE AU DESUS DE SON AAGE, QUI LUY ONT OUVERT LE CHEMIN DE L'IMORTALITÉ. REQUIESCAT IN PACE. In the 16th century the acolytes of Notre-Dame celebrated their well-known _fêtes_ at S. Nicolas, performing various antics _en route_; but as their disorderly conduct was great, and the "_facéties_" practised led to divers troubles and various abominations, the ceremony resolved itself latterly into a simple Benediction which the _enfants de chœur_ chanted in honour of their patron. SAINT-NICOLAS DU CHARDONNET. This is an ugly church, with traditions going back to the 13th century, but with nothing thereof now to be seen, in the Rue S. Victor. The present building dates from 1656 to 1709. A picture by Lebrun, of _The Miracle of Moses_, adorns one of the chapels; and the tomb erected by him to his mother's memory, by Tuby and Callignon, is to be found in another. Lebrun's own tomb is by Coyzevox; Jérôme Bignon's, by Girardon. There are also pictures by Le Sueur, Coypel, Corot, Desgoffes, and Mignard. Suzanne Butay, widow of Lebrun, was a generous body, and left a number of legacies to the poor of the parish, and divers other church institutions, which are recorded thus: