The Gateway to France: Flanders, Artois and Picardy |
Contents
Map of Flanders Artois and Picardy xi | 1 |
Exploring the Charms of the Aisne | 92 |
Further Reading | 198 |
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abbey Aire-sur-la-Lys Amiens ancient apse arcades Arras Beauvais belfry bishop boasts Boulogne brick brick-and-stone building built Calais Cambrai carved cathedral centre chapel château choir classical Compiègne Condette couple crossing dates decorated département depicting doorway drive Dunkerque eighteenth eighteenth-century façade fifteenth flamboyant Gothic Flanders flanked Flemish forest former fortified fourteenth-century France French gabled Gallo-Roman gateway Gothic church Hôtel Hôtel de Ville houses inside Jean Jesus King Laon Le Crotoy Lille Louis Louis XIV massive medieval Musée museum nave Notre-Dame Noyon once paintings Paris park Pas-de-Calais Péronne Picardy Place porch Porte reach rebuilt remains Renaissance rises River Romanesque rose window route ruined Saint Saint-Martin Saint-Omer Saint-Pierre sculpted Senlis seventeenth seventeenth-century side sixteenth sixteenth-century Soissons Somme south-west square stands statue stone street superb thirteenth thirteenth-century tomb Tour tower Town Hall transept turn left turn right twelfth century Valenciennes village Virgin Mary walk walls