Note 346 — Chapter X · Gothic Art in Normandy[314]

St. Maclou, says Mr. F. M. Simpson, expresses the joie de vivre, even as the stiff angular lines of a contemporary style—the English Perpendicular—show the gloom that prevailed in England after the War of the Roses. Cardinal Guillaume d’Estouteville contributed toward St. Maclou, which was dedicated only in 1521, by Cardinal Georges II d’Amboise. Jean Goujon probably made the richly chiseled doors. St. Maclou has XV-century windows; its rose windows are of the XVI century. There is Le Prince glass in the late-Gothic church of St. Vincent, and other XVI-century windows in St. Patrice. Abbé Ouin-Lacroix. Histoire de l’église et de la paroisse de St. Maclou de Rouen (1846); Edmond Renaud, L’église St. Vincent de Rouen (1885); Arthur Kingsley Porter, Medieval Architecture, vol. 2, pp. 389 to 416, “Flamboyant Gothic Monuments.”