Of St. Ouen only the eastern end of the nave, the apse and the choir, with the far older Tour aux Clercs beside them, were being built; neither its central crown nor its rose windows yet existed.
But a far more beautiful and more authentic fragment is to be seen close to the Abbey Church of St. Ouen, in the exquisite little piece of architecture known as the Tour aux Clercs in the north-eastern corner of the apse, (see Chap.
The ridge of it stands above the lowest point of the Val aux Clercsno higher than the corresponding and opposite ridge which the English King occupied with his army, but the fall covers double the distance.
He saw the head of the French charge get home but its extended line wavering, checked, and broken up on the Val aux Clercs as a continuous rain of arrows poured in.
On either side of this Val aux Clercs lift the soft and inconspicuous slopes that bound it.
The slope undulates very gradually into the general level of the plateau, and is so formed that the Val aux Clercs is funnel-shaped, much wider at the mouth on the Maye than towards its upper end.
It dates in its most ancient part from 1250 as the Pré-aux-Clercs road.
This huge table was also used as a stage for the clercs de la Basoche for their plays and mummeries during two or three hundred years.
Archbishop of Reims and the Bishops of Laon and Langres; Clercs Comtes, i.
It was founded by the kindly regular canon, Jean Le Moyne, and its revenues were applied to the bénéficiers machicots and clercsdu matins.
You will allow me to go to walk in the Pre-aux-Clercs or on the Place Royale?
He fought a duel yesterday in the little Pre-aux-Clercs and killed his adversary, and he had still another duel for this evening.
The clercs du secret, become secretaires d'Etat (in 1547), had in charge the correspondence of the king on all public affairs.
In 1318 was created the Conseil etroit, or Council of State, which was the deliberative power, as the officers of the crown and the clercs du secret, from whom were selected later the secretaries of State, constituted the executive power.
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