Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

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[See also: JEANNE D’ARC; LISIEUX]
Neveux, François. L’évêgue Pierre Cauchon. Paris: Denoel, 1987.
Sarrazin. Pierre Cauchon juge de Jeanne d’Arc. Rouen: Champion, 1901.
Wolff, Philippe. “Le théologien Pierre Cauchon de sinistre mémoire.” In Économies et sociétés au
moyen âge: mélanges offerts a Édouard Perroy. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1973.


CAUDEBEC-EN-CAUX


. Longtime capital of the Pays de Caux, Normandy, the little town of Caudebec-en-Caux
(Seine-Maritime) has two significant medieval monuments. The Maison des Templiers,
with its well-preserved gableend walls, is a rare example of 13th-century civil
architecture. The Flamboyant Gothic church of Notre-Dame (1426–84), miraculously
spared when the town was burned in 1940, was called by Henry IV the “prettiest chapel


Caudebec-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime),

Notre-Dame, nave. Photograph:

Clarence Ward Collection. Courtesy of

Oberlin College.

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