The inscriptions set forth the motives that induced the nation to
bestow so marked a distinction upon a simple individual; and, in the
foremost rank of his merits, they place the games which he had given to
his fellow-citizens, during four successive days.]
[Footnote 83: _Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions_, XXI. p. 489.]
[Footnote 84: _Archaeologia_, XVII. p. 911.]
[Footnote 85: _Bayeux et ses Environs, par M. Delauney_, p. 12.]
[Footnote 86: I. p. 371-379; pl. 35-49, and II. p. 1-29; pl. 1-9.]
[Footnote 87: VI. p. 739, and VIII. p. 602.]
[Footnote 88: _Anglo-Norman Antiquities_, Appendix, No. 1.]
[Footnote 89: _Archaeologia_, XVII. p. 85.]
[Footnote 90: _Archaeologia_, XVIII. p. 359.]
[Illustration: Sculpture at Bayeux]
LETTER XXVIII.
CATHEDRAL OF BAYEUX--CANON OF CAMBREMER--COPE OF ST. REGNOBERT--ODO.
(_Bayeux, August_, 1818.)
Excepting the tapestry and the cathedral, Bayeux, at this time, offers
no objects of interest to the curious traveller. Its convents are either
demolished, or so dilapidated or altered, that they have lost their
characteristic features; and its eighteen parish churches are now
reduced to four. We wandered awhile about the town, vainly looking after
some relic of ancient art, to send you by way of a memento of Bayeux.
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