Note 19 — THE CATHEDRAL OF ROUEN. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN.
Reading edition
Within three years of writing it, the spire was consumed by lightning. The newspapers of both France and England were full of this melancholy event; and in the year 1823 M. Hyacinthe Langlois of Rouen, published an account of it, together with some views of the progress of the burning.