. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. e Cathedral was demolished about1690. In The Builder for May 12, 1916, appeared a diagramaccompanied by a note from a firm of publishers whostated that they had received the sketch from one of theirtravellers who was then serving on the Arras front. Heinforms us, they state, that it is not a puzzle, but aplan of the labyrinth under the cathedral. He found theprints in a ruin in the vicinity, a house which appears tohave been occupied by a librarian from what he sawamong the debris. The sketch in question is of anoctag
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. e Cathedral was demolished about1690. In The Builder for May 12, 1916, appeared a diagramaccompanied by a note from a firm of publishers whostated that they had received the sketch from one of theirtravellers who was then serving on the Arras front. Heinforms us, they state, that it is not a puzzle, but aplan of the labyrinth under the cathedral. He found theprints in a ruin in the vicinity, a house which appears tohave been occupied by a librarian from what he sawamong the debris. The sketch in question is of anoctagonal pattern resembling that of the St. Quentin 61 labyrinth, and represents the pavement-labyrinth that for-merly existed in the now ruined cathedral, not, of course,a system of subterranean passages, as the correspondentevidently inferred. It was about 34^ ft. in diameter andwas composed of small blue and yellow squares. Thedestruction of this labyrinth cannot be debited to theaccount of the aggressors in the Great War, as it wascarried out during the French Fig. 53.—Labyrinth in Sens Cathedral. (Gailhabaud.) A labyrinth of rather striking design (Fig. 54) wasformerly in the pavement of the old Abbey of St. Bertin,an edifice which has long been a picturesque ruin, in thelower part of the town of St. Omer. A description of itwas first published nearly a century ago by EmmanuelWallet (or Vallet). Our figure, which accords with hisnotes, differs slightly from that which has usually accom-panied the references of subsequent writers—many ofwhom, by the way, erroneously speak of it as being inthe cathedral, which is in the upper part of the town, andat some distance from St. Bertin. Most illustrations of62
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