Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . WatmCT d- DphpS. T.^i-n-2i< Palais QranvelU. BESANgON. 55. Route. 365 In the first case we proceed through the Rue de la R^publique to thePlace du Quatre-Septembre (PI. C, 2), which is skirted by theGrande-Rue; in the second, we reach the Pont de Battant (p. 366),where the Grande-Rue begins. The church of St Pierre (PI. C, 2), an uninteresting edifice ofthe 18th cent., contains a Piet^ in marble by Luc Breton (S. tran-sept) and a Madonna and Child by Clesinger (N
Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . WatmCT d- DphpS. T.^i-n-2i< Palais QranvelU. BESANgON. 55. Route. 365 In the first case we proceed through the Rue de la R^publique to thePlace du Quatre-Septembre (PI. C, 2), which is skirted by theGrande-Rue; in the second, we reach the Pont de Battant (p. 366),where the Grande-Rue begins. The church of St Pierre (PI. C, 2), an uninteresting edifice ofthe 18th cent., contains a Piet^ in marble by Luc Breton (S. tran-sept) and a Madonna and Child by Clesinger (N. transept), bothartists being natives of Besangon. — Opposite the church stands theHotel de ViLle (PI. C, 3), a building of the 16th cent., with a time-blackened front in rusticated masonry. Behind it is the Palai$ deJustice^ also of the 16th cent., with a pleasing facade. The Palais Granvelle (PI. D, 3), farther on, to the right, at thecorner of the Rue de la Prefecture, was built in 1634-40 by NicolasPerrenot de Granvelle (p. 369), the famous chancellor of Charles father of Cardinal Granvella. The court is surrou
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