Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . inthe times of the historian Archbishop Gregory ofTours (573-94), became more and more magnifi-cent after several destructions by fire. It hadreached its greatest splendour when it was pillagedby the Huguenots. Tours claims to have originatedthe name of those destructive people, who in thebeginning used to steal out for secret meetings atnight beyond the walls of the city, flitting aboutlike the local bogey le roi And Tours pos-sesses to this clay in the name of one of its streetsa reminiscence of th
Alcuin of YorkLectures delivered in the cathedral church of Bristol in 1907 and 1908 . inthe times of the historian Archbishop Gregory ofTours (573-94), became more and more magnifi-cent after several destructions by fire. It hadreached its greatest splendour when it was pillagedby the Huguenots. Tours claims to have originatedthe name of those destructive people, who in thebeginning used to steal out for secret meetings atnight beyond the walls of the city, flitting aboutlike the local bogey le roi And Tours pos-sesses to this clay in the name of one of its streetsa reminiscence of the early hunting down of theHuguenots as a highly enjoyable form of the chasseaim renards. When their time came, they wreakeda savage revenge, and practically destroyed thenoble Abbey Church. A reproduction of itsappearance in the perfection of symmetry has beenprepared from plans and drawings, and is shown inPlate 1. The only remains left by the Revolution 1 This is of course not the usually assigned derivation ;but it sounds the more reasonable of the two. <feU ^^JSBi; Sj/% V |. Plate II
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