Beside the door is a stone figure of Christ, of the sixteenth century. One can also see in the second chapel, beyond the great doorway in the north aisle of the nave, the group (in high relief) of the Visitation (seventeenth century) and the picture of the Adoration of the Wise Men, attributed to Philippe de Champaigne. The symmetrical chapel, on the south, contains the tombstone of Jean Rose and his wife. Jean Rose was one of the great bourgeois of Meaux in the fourteenth century. His name was given to one of the boulevards of the town. At the entrance to the nave the seventeenth century organ is supported by beautiful arcading. [Illustration: BOSSUET'S MONUMENT (Cathedral)] +Bossuet's Monument+, the work of the sculptor Dubois (1907), stands in the north aisle, near the main entrance. At the foot of the pedestal, on the right, are represented Turenne and Mlle. de Lavallière, converted by Bossuet: Mlle. de Lavallière appears in the garb of a nun. It will be remembered how, after Mme. de Montespan had replaced her in the favour of the king, Louis XIV., she withdrew to the convent of the Carmelites, under the name of Sister Louise de la Miséricorde. On the left are Henrietta of France, queen of England, whose funeral oration was delivered by the "Eagle of Meaux," and the Dauphin, whose tutor Bossuet had been. Behind the pedestal is a bust of the Great Condé. Bossuet was his friend, and frequently visited him in his beautiful castle of Chantilly, and often received him at the Bishop's Palace. His death inspired the "Eagle of Meaux" with one of his most magnificent funeral orations. =The Old Chapter House= (historical monument) [Illustration: THE OLD CHAPTER HOUSE] _Leaving the cathedral by the west door one walks into the courtyard of the bishop's palace, the entrance to which is on the right of the square._ At the further end of the courtyard is the old Chapter House. This old dwelling-place of the canons of the cathedral dates from the thirteenth century, and is in course of restoration. Its curious, covered outside staircase, which is well seen in the opposite view, is well known to archæologists. We have seen already, in the case of the Porte Maugarni, how vehemently the canons defended their prerogatives. The Old Bishop's Palace The old bishop's palace, the courtyard front of which faces the cathedral, dates from the twelfth century, and was altered in the sixteenth and seventeenth. On the ground floor are two fine vaulted twelfth century rooms. An inclined plane leads to the second floor. According to tradition, one of the bishops had it made that he might go up to his rooms without dismounting from his mule. [Illustration: THE OLD BISHOP'S PALACE] Amongst the first-floor rooms are those of Marie-Antoinette and the king. Meaux was in fact a halting place for Louis XVI. and the royal family on their return from Varennes. The king's room was also occupied by Napoléon I. when he came back from the Russian campaign.