The Cathedrals Of Southern France Part 43

Ma.r.s.eilles First century St. Lazare

St. Paul-Trois Second century St. Restuit 1790 Chateaux, or Tricastin

Toulon Fifth century Honore 1790

Orange Fifth century St. Luce 1790

_Province d'Auch_

Eauze Third century St. Paterne 720 (Archbishopric)

Auch Fourth century Citerius (Bishopric then Archbishopric)

Dax Third century St. Vincent 1802

Lectoure Sixth century Heuterius 1790

Comminges Sixth century Suavis 1790

Conserans Fifth century St. Valere 1790

Aire Fifth century Marcel

Bazas Sixth century s.e.xtilius (?)

Tarbes Sixth century St. Justin

Oloron Sixth century Gratus 1790

Lescar Fifth century St. Julien 1790

Bayonne Ninth century Arsias Rocha

_Province d'Avignon_

Avignon Fourth century St. Ruf (Bishopric, becoming Archbishopric in fifteenth century) Carpentras Third century St. Valentin 1790 Vaison Fourth century St. Aubin 1790 Cavaillon Fifth century St. Genialis 1790

_Province de Bordeaux_

Bordeaux (Bishopric) Third century (Archbishopric) Fourth century Oriental Agen Fourth century St. Pherade Condom Raimond de (Ancient Galard abbey--foundation date unknown) Bishopric) Fourteenth century Angouleme Third century St. Ansome Saintes Third century St. Eutrope 1793 Poitiers Third century St. Nectaire Maillezais Fourteenth century Geoffrey I.

(afterward at La Roch.e.l.le) Lucon 1317 Pierre de La (Seventh-century Veyrie abbey) Perigueux Second century St. Front Sarlat 1317 Raimond de (Eighth-century Roquecorne Benedictine abbey)

_Province de Bourges_

Bourges Third century St. Ursin (Archbishopric) Clermont-Ferrand Third century St. Austremoine St. Flour 1318 Raimond de (Ancient priory) Vehens Limoges Third century St. Martial Tulle 1317 Arnaud de (Seventh-century Saint-Astier Benedictine abbey) Le Puy Third century St. Georges

_Province d'Embrun_

Embrun (Archbishopric) Fourth century St. Marcellin 1793 Digne Fourth century St. Domnin Antibes Fourth century St. Armentaire (afterward at Gra.s.se) Gra.s.se Raimond de 1790 Villeneuve (1245) Vence Fourth century Eusebe 1790 Glandeve Fifth century Fraterne 1790 Senez Fifth century Ursus 1790 Nice Fourth century Amantius (formerly at Cemenelium)

_Province de Lyon_

Lyon _The Archbishop of Lyon was Primate of Gaul._ (Archbishopric) Second century St. Pothin Autun Third century St. Amateur Macon Sixth century Placide 1790 Chalon-sur-Saone Fifth century Paul 1790 Langres Third century St. Just Dijon Bishopric in 1731 Jean Bonhier (Fourth-century abbey) Saint Claude Bishopric in 1742 Joseph de (Fifth-century Madet abbey)

_Province de Narbonne_

Narbonne Third century St. Paul 1802 (Archbishopric)

Saint-Pons-de- 1318 Pierre Roger 1790 Tomieres(Tenth- century abbey) Alet 1318 Barthelmy 1790 (Ninth-century abbey) Beziers Fourth century St. Aphrodise 1702 Nimes Fourth century St. Felix Alais 1694 Chevalier de 1790 Saulx Lodeve Fourth century (?) St. Flour 1790 Uzes Fifth century Constance 1790 Agde Fifth century St. Venuste 1790 Maguelonne Sixth century Beotius (afterward at Montpellier) Carca.s.sonne Sixth century St. Hilaire Elne Sixth century Domnus (afterward at Perpignan)

_Province de Tarentaise_

Tarentaise Fifth century St. Jacques (Archbishopric) Sion Fourth century St. Theodule Aoste Fourth century St. Eustache Chambery 1780 Michel Conseil

_Province de Toulouse_

Toulouse (Bishopric) Third century St. Saturnin (Archbishopric) 1327 Pamiers 1297 Bernard Saisset (Eleventh-century abbey)

Rieux 1317 Guillaume de Brutia Montauban 1317 Bertrand du Puy (Ancient abbey) Mirepoix 1318 Raimond 1790 Athone Saint-Papoul 1317 Bernard de la 1790 Tour Lombes 1328 Roger de 1790 (Tenth-century Commminges abbey) Lavaur 1317 Roger d'Armagnac 1790

_Province de Vienne_

Vienne Second century St. Crescent 1790 (Archbishopric) Gren.o.ble Third century Domninus Geneve (Switz.) Fourth century Diogene 1801 Annency 1822 Claude de Thiollaz Valence Fourth century Emelien Die Third century Saint Mars Viviers Fifth century Saint Janvier 1790 St. Jean de Fifth century Lucien Maurienne

III

_The Cla.s.sification of Architectural Styles in France according to De Caumont's "Abecedaire d'Architecture Religieuse."_

Architecture Primordiale From the Vth to the Xth centuries.

Romaine Secondaire From the end of the Xth century to the beginning of the XIIth Tertiaire or transition XIIth century Architecture Primitive XIIIth century Ogivale Secondaire XIVth century Tertiaire XVth and the first part of the XVIth century

[Ill.u.s.tration]

IV

_A Chronology of Architectural Styles in France_

Following more or less upon the lines of De Caumont's territorial and chronological divisions of architectural style in France, the various species and periods are thus further described and defined:

The Merovingian period, commencing about 480; Carlovingian, 751; Romanesque or Capetian period, 987; Transitional, 1100 (extending in the south of France and on the Rhine till 1300); early French Gothic or Pointed (_Gothique a lancettes_), mid-twelfth to mid-thirteenth centuries; decorated French Gothic (_Gothique rayonnant_), from the mid-thirteenth to mid-fifteenth centuries, and even in some districts as late as the last decade of the fifteenth century; Flamboyant (_Gothique flamboyant_), early fifteenth to early sixteenth; Renaissance, dating at least from 1495, which gave rise subsequently to the _style Louis XII.

and style Francois I_.

With the reign of Henri II., the change to the Italian style was complete, and its place, such as it was, definitely a.s.sured. French writers, it may be observed, at least those of a former generation and before, often carry the reference to the _style de la Renaissance_ to a much later period, even including the neo-cla.s.sical atrocities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

_Bizarre_ or _baroque_ details, or the _style perruque_, had little place on French soil, and the later exaggerations of the _rococo_, the styles _Pompadour_ and _Dubarri_, had little if anything to do with church-building, and are relevant merely insomuch as they indicate the mannerisms of a period when great churches, if they were built at all, were constructed with somewhat of a leaning toward their baseness, if not actually favouring their eccentricities.