The spacious square in front of the Hôtel de Ville is overlooked by public buildings, whose new appearance might give one a wrong impression of the antiquity of the town, if it were not for the beautiful belfry tower, with a pinnacled spire, standing in one corner. It was built in the latter part of the fifteenth century, and the bell, whose notes are frequently heard, was cast in 1406, and is nearly a century older than the tower, which was built in place of an earlier one. The Museum, in the same square, is interesting, on account of the Roman remains it contains, found at the village of Vieil-Evreux, a Roman site about four and a half miles to the west. [Illustration: TOWN PLAN NO. 6.--EVREUX.] From the museum a short street, the Rue de l’Horloge, leads to the Cathedral, whose lately restored spire appears above the roofs from nearly every point of view. From the eleventh right down to the nineteenth century rebuilding or alterations have been taking place on the great church, and now, to the architect, as well as those who are interested in the history of France, there are the records in stone of the changes which those eight centuries have witnessed. The first Norman cathedral was burnt, in 1119, by Henry I. of England, who rebuilt the nave about twenty-six years later. During the fighting in Normandy in the time of Philippe Auguste the church again suffered, and the triforium of the nave was rebuilt about the middle of the thirteenth century. The present choir followed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The following summary covers the chief periods of the cathedral: 1076. Consecration of the Norman church. 1119. Burnt by Henry I. _c._ 1125. Nave rebuilt by Henry I. _c._ 1240. Nave triforium rebuilt. 1298-1310. Choir built. 1352-1417. North-west tower built; rebuilt in classic style 1608-1630. 1400. The west window. 1461-1483. The spire built when Cardinal de la Balue was Bishop. _c._ 1465. The Lady-chapel (partly thirteenth century). _c._ 1515. North transept built by Bishop Ambroise le Veneur. _c._ 1545. The Renaissance west front begun by Bishop Gabriel le Veneur. 1545-1630. South-west tower reconstructed in the classic style. The west front is unique in being the only completely classic façade among all the cathedrals of France. It almost gives the feeling of the François I. châteaux by the Loire. The interior is a most inspiring example of pure French Gothic. In the chapels are several windows containing beautiful stained glass of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; that in the south transept is sixteenth century.