d listen to her on his return." The woman said, "What, if
you never return?" "My successor will satisfy you"--he replied--"But
how will that benefit you,"--resumed the widow. The Emperor then
descended from his horse, and enquiring into the woman's case, caused
justice to be done to her. Some of the stories say that the murderer
was the Emperor's own son.

[112] [Since the publication of the first edition of this work, the figure
in question has appeared from the pencil and burin of Mr. Cotman; of
which the only fault, as it strikes me, is, that the surface is too
rough--or the effect too sketchy.]

[113] Bourgueville has minutely described it in his _Antiquities_; and
his description is copied in the preceding edition of this work.

[114] Bourgueville is extremely particular and even eloquent in his account
of the tower, &c. He says that he had "seen towers at Paris, Rouen,
Toulouse, Avignon, Narbonne, Montpelier, Lyons, Amiens, Chartres,
Angiers, Bayeux, Constances, (qu. Coutances?) and those of St. Stephen
at Caen, and others, in divers parts of France, which are built in a
pyramidal form--but THIS TOWER OT ST. PETER exceeded all the others,
as well in its height, as in its curious form of construction."
_Antiq. de Caen_; p.36. He regrets, however, that the _name of
the architect_ has not descended to us. [It is right to correct an
error, in the preceding edition, which has been committed on the
authority of Ducarel. That Antiquary supposed the tower and spire to
have been built by the generosity of one NICHOLAS, an ENGLISHMAN."
Mons. Licquet has, I think, reclaimed the true author of such
munificence, as his _own_ countryman.--NICOLAS LANGLOIS:--whose
name thus occurs in his epitaph, preserved by Bourgueville.

_Le Vendredi, devant tout droict_
_La Saint Cler que le temps n'est froit,_
_Trespassa_ NICOLLE L'ANGLOIS,
_L'an Mil Trois Cens et Dix Sept._]
&c. &c.

Reverting, to old BOURGUEVILLE, I cannot take leave of him without
expressing my hearty thanks for the amusement and information which
his unostentatious octavo volume--entitled _Les Recherches et
Antiquitez de la Ville et Universite de Caen, &c_. (a Caen, 1588,
8vo.) has afforded me.

The author, who tells us he was born in 1504, lived through the most
critical and not unperilous period of the times in