The archbishop's palace, which is a large building, is situated close to the cathedral. It bears the date of 1690, and secn,sto have been used as a caserne.
The church of St. Remi, situated in the higher part of the town, is seen at a great distance, with its three lofty spires, in approaching the town front Chalons. The spire at the east end is the largest and fittest. It has a small p) rancid at each angle, joined hy, flying Ituttresses to the principal pyramid. The two spires at the west end are similar, but without buttresses. There is a large circular iron window at the west por tal, with fluted columns all the way up the front. The south portal is grand, but a little defaced. In the north end of the transept is a circular window, and in the south end a large window, in both of which there is very little coloured glass. The outside of this church is not remarkable for ornament or fine architecture. It has a fine chime of music-bells. The interior of the church is very fine. There are side aisles all around. In the choir there are ten large messy columns, and i the upper windows of it consist of beautifully painted glass. Between each column in the choir are two mar ble columns and two pilasters, and in one of them three marble columns. There is an altar-piece behind, with two black marble columns, and the nave is ornamented with six pieces of tapestry. Across the transept, on each side, there are eighteen little marble columns of black and red marble, alternately supporting an archi trave. In the choir a grand circular mausoleum is erected over the tomb of St. Remi It consists of eight large marble columns, with segments of arches spring ing from each to an apex above. It contains within it
no fewer than fifteen full length marble statues of the Bishops of Noyon, Chalons, Beauvais, Langres, Laon, Rheims, Burgundy, Normandy, the Duke of Aquitaine, the Counts of Champagne, Flandre, and Thoulouse, besides other three figures without names. Ail these figures surround the tomb of St. Rend. This mauao lemn was erected in 1803 by .M. Remi-Roland Ludinard of Vauxcelles. There was standing in the nave in 1814 a huge gilt ball, surmounted with an eagle, with the inscription of Protegente Alipoleone Jllagno. It is now reversed, and seems to have been one of the ornaments of the church.
The Maison de Ville is a large and handsome build ing, but only one half of the middle, and one of the wings, were finished in 1814. There are eight windows in the half front, two stories and an attic in the body, and three stories and an attic in the wing. It is ornament ed with fine Doric pillars below, there being six in the portal, six in the hod, and four in the wing. It has a low eight-sided spire, covered with slate. The front of the building was in 1314 undergoing a repair with the chisel. There are three hospitals in Rheims, and sonic antiquities. The remains of a triumphal arch and some vestiges of an amphitheatre arc to be seen without the gate of Mars.
• A royal college or high school has been established in place of the university, which was founded here in 1547.
'I he principal manufactures of Rheims are cotton and woollen, and silken goods, hats and stockings, candles and spiced bread. The Archbishop of Rheims is primate of all France. Population 31,356. East long, 4° 6'; North let. 49° 16'.