Aïïs .D" "g,0^ and fiber, probably-from the ancient Dairies') in > the S.J of
I Frapcggy’ 3
The Roman antiquities in France are numerous, landTomé èfttKerp in
excellent prefervation. Thofe at Nifriies are particularly celebrated,,con®ff-
i . ing chiefly of an amphitheatre, and the temple called La Maifon Garre. At
Paris there are alfö fome curious remains ;0.f Roman architedlure, but a
mere enumeration óf fuch remains would exceed the limits propofed.
T h e other periods of French antiquity have been ably illuftrated by
• the learned work of Mqntfaucqn*;, a n ^ tjie diiclafuEe'^fi.-the..gray® of
Childeric near-Tournay-in the 'laft century prefented f0me-qL,the moll
CjUrious fragments. | In an old, tower »of-St. Germain (Ju, Pré .areyeBre-
fentationstof_fev_efal jof.thfe Trft rhonarebs»_of, the Rrariks, and'many of
t&eir effigies were preferred oh their tombs at 5 tTDennis,. ap<| fotiier
places, till tb ^ a t e jrqvelution.
T h e monum en tsq fy h e Carlovingianj race., atfi.yqt; ïqoxe^hhanjerous,
arid Roman mofaies ha.tle illuftratèdrth’ê -Fame o f Charlemagne., T ran c e
has Jbeeh 'f0^.httle,expofe.d to^foreign coaqueft,, p rip rq ad , that;;federal
facred- edifices, exift which,, were „ejeéted icy this femfite (perio,d.„,r Qfuhe
later periods the monuments are fo numerqys tliatjit would-be vain to
- attempt to enumerate them. One of tljeh mod firigular is,-the, fuit of,
- tapeftry, which was prfefêrvqd in the Cathedral J u M -i of Bay,dux in
-Normandy, ^representing. the, beginning a rT termiiïatigp,r)Ê ,the grand
contéflt between WHliam ahd Harold, which led - to the.|ycpjiqueft of
Ënglarid by th e Normans. It is faid to have been-'tte;,tó^k p£ M atff|a,
•wife of William ; and bears ^pyery mark -öf th a t, remote' antiquity.
The ftatue o f Philip Auguftus, in the cbpfch öf?qliè^abbpj o f V iétpry
nëar .Seales, is no mean relic of the arts of.,the" middleiage&p.'apcfc'St.
Louis*called forth many exertions óf écclefiaftic Ikill. For ïatêr gljrjocis
Montfaucon, ana other learned authors, may be confulted.
* In Picardy, and other parts pofleffed by the Belgas, there are circles; and other monuments
o f the kind which we call druidic. Near the town o f Carnac on the coaft o f Vannes in Bretagne,
there is. a grand monument of this kind,-, far exceeding .Stonehenge, i f thl"acé!©-nïibhe not ex-
aggerated, which fays that there are about 4000 ftones, many as h-gh as Ji'8:-;op'.201feet, difpofed
in the form o f a Quincunx o f eleyeri rows. .(Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1801..) I t is not a little '
. Angular that the Venetï, ór people o f Vanned, who oppofed fo great a fleet to Giefar were
Belgas, as* Strabo fpecially informs,us, L ib . iv ; an additional proof that jthefe monuments
are neither Celtic nor Druidic, but founded by the Belgic Goths, who long before the Chriftian
t o pofleffed the greateftpart' o f Europe.
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