. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. entres in Francewhere fine old church glass can be found, and also the Channelports of Dieppe, Havre, Cherbourg, and St Malo. Brittany is omitted, as containing little glass anterior to itsunion with the Crown of France by the marriage of the DuchesseAnne de Bretagne with King Charles VITI. in 1491. At Quimper in Brittany there is fine glass of the fifteenthcentury, and glass of the same period is to be found at Pl^lan,Pluduno, and Dinan, and fourte
. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. entres in Francewhere fine old church glass can be found, and also the Channelports of Dieppe, Havre, Cherbourg, and St Malo. Brittany is omitted, as containing little glass anterior to itsunion with the Crown of France by the marriage of the DuchesseAnne de Bretagne with King Charles VITI. in 1491. At Quimper in Brittany there is fine glass of the fifteenthcentury, and glass of the same period is to be found at Pl^lan,Pluduno, and Dinan, and fourteenth-century glass at Dol withone thirteenth-century window. There is a good deal of glass of the sixteenth century inBrittany. The most remarkable centres are Moncontour, Ker-goat, Ploermel, Iffs, and Guerande. But genuine specimensof sixteenth-century glass can also be found at Plelan andPenmarch, and at the smaller places, Comfort, Cran, Edern,Faouet, Kerfeuntun, Langonnet, Plogonnec, Pluduno, St Herve,and Stival. Five glass centres in the extreme south-west of France, atAuch, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Narbonne, and Beziers are CarentaiioCouta^ces o VaBnont oMonville Se7Hii>-S-^ . ORouen Bec^vais\-Audemo , , .Pont rEveqjeo ° P^ ^^£,^,/^ lAr^he Gjsorj Q Q oBeauiron Li^eux tier nay ODoJoDJnan 48 talaiseOAraentano ConchesNonancoarto Verne ui JoSet?s oAlencon pTvreux-^^Q^n^esy PARiiO o Mont fortfAtnaury oChart res 48 ?0 Le Mans oVendome
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