first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II. to the confines of Spain, after he had married her to that wretched monarch) should not have inflamed the irritated minds of the Calvinists, by BURNING ALIVE, in 1559, John Cottin, one of their most eminent preachers, by way of striking terror into the rest!  Well might the Chronicler observe, as the result, “novas secta illa in dies acquirebat vires.”  About 1560-2, the Calvinists got the upper hand; and repaid the Catholics with a vengeance.  Charles of Bourbon died in 1590:  so that he had an arduous and agitated time of it.

[47] How long will this monument—­(matchless of its kind)—­continue
    unrepresented by the BURIN?  If Mr. Henry Le Keux were to execute it in
    his best style, the world might witness in it a piece of Art entirely
    perfect of its kind.  But let the pencils of Messrs. Corbould and Blore
    be first exercised on the subject.  In the mean while, why is GALLIC
    ART inert?

[48] The choir was formerly separated from the surrounding chapels, or
    rather from the space between it and the chapels, by a superb brass
    grating, full of the most beautiful arabesque ornaments—­another
    testimony of the magnificent spirit of the Cardinal and Prime Minister
    of Louis XII.:  whose arms, as well as the figure of his patron, St.
    George, were seen in the centre of every compartment ...  The
    Revolution has not left a vestige behind!

[49] [In this edition, I put the above passage in Italics,—­to
    mark, that, within three years of writing it, the spire was consumed
    by LIGHTNING.  The newspapers of both France and England were full of
    this melancholy event; and in the year 1823, Monsieur Hyacinthe
    Langlois, of Rouen, published an account of it, together with some
    views (indifferently lithographised) of the progress of the burning. 
    “It should seem (says Mons. Licquet) that the author had a
    presentiment of what was speedily to take place:—­for the rest, the
    same species of destruction threatens all similar edifices, for the
    want of conductors.”  I possess a fragment of the lead of the roof, as
    it was collected after a state of fusion—­and sent over to me
    by some friend at Rouen.  The fusion has caused portions of the lead to
    assume a variety of fantastic shapes—­not altogether unlike a
    gothic building.]

[50] Let me add that the whole length of the cathedral is about four
    hundred and forty feet; and the transept about one hundred and
    seventy-five; English measure.  The height of the nave is about ninety,
    and of the lantern one hundred and sixty-eight feet, English.  The
    length of the nave is two hundred and twenty-eight feet.

[51] He died in 1531.  Both the ancient and yet existing inscriptions are
    inserted by Gilbert, from Pommeraye and Farin; and formerly there was
    seen, in the middle of the monument, the figure of the Seneschal
    habited as a Count, with all the insignia of his dignity.  But this did
    not outlive the Revolution.