Note 52 — Chapter III · Some of the Primary Gothic Cathedrals: Noyon, Senlis, Sens, Laon, Soissons

The Church of the Victory, consecrated by the warrior-bishop in 1225, was ruined during the Hundred Years’ War by the Duke of Bedford’s troops, who day after day were pricked on by Jeanne d’Arc’s army to a battle. In Flamboyant Gothic times the abbatial was rebuilt, but again it was wrecked in the XVIII century. Only a few late-Gothic bays now stand on the lawn before the country house of the Comte Boula de Coulomier. Bishop Guérin also consecrated the church of Chaalis abbey, where he was buried in 1228. Chaalis is now a picturesque ruin.