CHAPTER III.
TOMB OF BERANGERE--WIVES OF COEUR DE LION--TOMBS--ABBEY CHURCHES--CHATEAU OF LE MANS--DE CRAON--THE SPECTRE OF LE MANS--THE VENDEEANS--MADAME DE LA ROCHE-JAQUELIN--A WOMAN'S PERILS--DISASTERS OF THE VENDEEANS--HENRI--CHOUANS.
HOWEVER interesting the exterior of the Cathedral of St.Julien may be, the interior entirely corresponds with it.

The windows of painted glass are of the very first order, and of surpassing beauty, nearly entire, and attributed to Cimabue.

The double range in the choir, seen through the _grille_, or from the exterior aisle--for there are two on each side--present a magnificent _coup d'oeil_.

The architecture is of different periods; specimens may be observed belonging to the 12th century and reaching to the 17th; but some of the finest is that of the Norman era; the zigzags of the portals, and the billets, rose mouldings, &c., being of peculiar delicacy and boldness.

There is a great deal of ornament composed of those extravagant forms of animals which, at a distance, are confounded with the foliage to which they are attached, but which, viewed nearly, are mysteriously extraordinary.