It was at Saint Denis that was enacted the romance of the scholar Pierre Abélard and "la très-sage Hélois" of Villon, whose story is too well known--and, perhaps, also too secular--to quote here. Both lie buried now at Père-la-Chaise, their remains having been removed from the monastery at Cluny in 1791 by Lenoir, to his collection of fragments and old monuments spared from the Revolution. It was after the Revolution that the abbey suffered more terrible damage and desecration than ever invading heathens or conquering English had worked there. The Convention, in its haste to rid the country of every trace of the hated monarchy, must needs assail dead kings and queens as well as living ones. Consequently every tomb was ravaged and the dust of a hundred kings lay mingling with the dust of the common ditch. With the restoration of the Bourbons, Louis XVIII. ordered also the replacement, as far as it was possible, of the bones of his dead ancestors; and the French kings sleep once again at Saint Denis, peaceful and undisturbed as in other years, though a smoky veil hangs over their resting-place and the roar of furnaces breaks the quiet of their ancient tombs.
Abadie, M., restoration of St. Pierre, 269.
Abbeville on the Somme-- Church of St. Wolfran, 27-28. Geological discoveries, 21-22. Historical sketch, 22-26. Rue des Trois Cailloux, 27.
Abbeys and Abbey-Churches-- St. Denis, 78-81, 381-384. St. Germain-des-Près, 372-376. St. Jean des Vignes, 61. St. Ouen, 82-83. Sainte-Colombe, 300.
Académie Française, 113; Bossuet admitted, 334.
Alençon, Duc d', attempted siege of Paris, 353-354.
Angers-- Castle, 175-176. Cathedral of St. Maurice, 174, 179-180. "Cheval Blanc," the, 176. Historical sketch, 169-174. Préfecture, old cloister in the, 176-179. Roman basilica, 52.
Angoulême-- Cathedral of St. Pierre, 268-270. Historical sketch, 267-268.
Aquitaine-- Domed churches of, 262-266. Truce of God in, 125.
Archæological Institute of Great Britain, 75.
Aurelianum, ancient name of Orléans, 223.
Auxerre-- Cathedral of St. Etienne, 239, 302-310. Church of St. Eusèbe, 310; of St. Germain, 305-309. Hôtel de l'Épée, 310.
Aymer de Valence, tomb at Westminster, 77, 257.
Barker, Mr., "Two Summers in Guyenne," 293.