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Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858

"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1"

L.B._;
A small north-west view, engraved by Pouncey, in the first volume
of _Gough's Alien Priories_;
And the west front, on an extremely reduced; scale, in _Seroux
d'Agincourt's Histoire de l'Art par les Monumens, Architecture_,
t. 64. f. 21. p. 68.
[74] This great benefactor to Rouen died the following year, deeply
lamented by the inhabitants, and generally so by France; but, above all,
regretted by Louis XIIth, his sovereign, whom, to use the words of
Guicciardini, he served as oracle and authority. The author of the
History of the Chevalier Bayard, is still louder in his praise.--The
western facade of the cathedral was not finished till 1530, twenty years
after his death.
[75] A representation of this has recently been published from an
engraving on stone by Langlois.
[76] _Histoire de l'Eglise Cathedrale de Rouen_, p. 50.
[77] _Noel, Essais sur le Departement de la Seine Inferieure_, II. p.
239.
[78] _Millin, Histoire Metallique de la Revolution Francaise_, t.


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