Excerpt from Brittany Its Byways: Some Account of Its Inhabitants and Its Antiquities; During a Residence in That Country Henry II. Held his court in the castle with his empress-mother in great splendour; it had formerly been tenanted by Duke William of Normandy be fore his invasion of England, and, within its enolo sure, he built a church also, in consequence of a vow made during a serious illness. There are few objects of interest in the town of Cherbourg. The women all wear the large Normandy cap. In the Place d'armes ...
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Excerpt from Brittany Its Byways: Some Account of Its Inhabitants and Its Antiquities; During a Residence in That Country Henry II. Held his court in the castle with his empress-mother in great splendour; it had formerly been tenanted by Duke William of Normandy be fore his invasion of England, and, within its enolo sure, he built a church also, in consequence of a vow made during a serious illness. There are few objects of interest in the town of Cherbourg. The women all wear the large Normandy cap. In the Place d'armes is a bronze equestrian statue of the Emperor Napoleon I., and on the pedestal is in scribed J'avois r???solu de renouveler a Cherbourg les merveilles de l'egypte. In the Library is a curiously sculptured chimney-piece of the fifteenth century, coloured and gilt, removed from a room of the abbey. The principal church, La Trinit???, is a strange jumble of architecture. There is some beau tiful tracery in the windows, and a fine boss (clef pen dante) in the south porch, now restored. On a board in the church is an inscription, setting forth it was built in consequence of a voeu solennel des habitans de Cherbourg en 1450 de la d???livrance de la domina tion etrangere - that is, from the English, whose de feat the same year at Formigny, by the Constable de Richemont, expelled them for ever from Normandy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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