The principal portals are very much ornamented, and its towers have much elegance: but the restorations it has undergone have been injudicious, and the modern painted glass which replaces the old is extremely bad; but many of the windows are of fine forms, and, on the whole, there is a good deal to admire in St.Pierre.
But little vestige remains now of the once famous convent of St.Pierre le Puellier, which owed its foundation to a miracle: it is one very often told as having occurred on like occasions; but is apparently still believed in Poitiers, where devotees of easy credence seem to abound.
Loubette was a young girl in the service of the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, and had been witness in Jerusalem of the discovery of the true cross.

She was a native of Brittany; and how she came to the holy city does not appear; suffice it that she wished to return to her own country.

The empress, in dismissing her, made her a present of a piece of the true cross, and a part of the crown of thorns.

Loubette placed the relics in her _little bag_, and set out on her journey _on foot_.

She was of very small stature, lame, and crooked, extremely weak, and hardly able to move; however, such as she was, she took her way from Jerusalem to Poitiers, where _having arrived_, and feeling fatigued, she lay down before she entered the town under a willow, hanging her little bag (_gibeciere_) on a branch, and went to sleep.