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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 102 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 74448 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 73 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 France 66 french 65 St. 64 Paris 53 England 43 Louis 39 illustration 35 Mr. 34 great 34 King 34 English 28 little 27 London 26 day 26 Madame 23 man 21 english 20 roman 20 Charles 18 time 18 place 16 Saint 16 Napoleon 15 Rue 15 Europe 15 Church 14 old 14 look 14 Sir 14 Henry 14 Duke 12 like 12 Royal 12 Revolution 12 Place 12 LETTER 12 Dame 11 Rome 11 Pont 11 Normandy 11 Louvre 11 Hôtel 11 God 11 French 10 town 10 people 10 good 10 William 10 Queen 10 Italy Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 11847 day 11814 time 11621 man 8380 place 7878 year 7279 people 7162 house 6904 town 6873 church 6727 part 6315 country 5958 way 5632 century 5544 side 4808 life 4801 work 4588 thing 4568 one 4537 woman 4513 hand 4348 wall 4272 city 4137 street 4125 room 4059 nothing 4033 name 3903 foot 3752 road 3629 king 3556 head 3392 eye 3343 friend 3313 building 3247 window 3194 order 3189 water 3178 stone 3152 person 3151 tower 3102 world 3058 hour 3057 illustration 3053 number 3013 night 2916 book 2869 manner 2865 child 2861 picture 2840 tree 2826 end Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 69451 _ 11250 de 9250 France 9038 Paris 8125 St. 3933 Louis 3901 la 3753 M. 3478 Mr. 3455 England 2771 French 2544 King 2428 Rue 2279 English 2164 le 2159 La 2058 du 1893 Madame 1765 Saint 1720 London 1642 des 1628 Charles 1619 . 1462 et 1332 Le 1314 Duke 1298 Henry 1251 Europe 1220 Rome 1170 Church 1169 Place 1167 Dame 1158 c. 1153 Hôtel 1130 à 1084 Revolution 1073 Napoleon 1061 Notre 1031 Sir 1030 God 1000 Lord 993 Indians 971 Royal 969 Rouen 966 Louvre 929 Library 923 Convention 905 Italy 899 John 867 les Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 68744 it 54534 i 40179 he 29404 they 28519 we 17358 them 15240 you 13581 him 11611 me 10032 she 8436 us 4223 himself 4070 her 3311 themselves 2983 one 2527 itself 1740 myself 873 ourselves 867 herself 299 yourself 148 mine 126 theirs 104 ours 102 yours 95 thee 78 his 50 hers 46 oneself 45 je 31 em 23 ''s 17 ''em 14 ye 12 yourselves 12 au 11 ce 10 --they 6 ay 5 whey 5 thyself 5 him,-- 4 them.--but 3 ya 3 ne 3 d''eau 2 à 2 years.--this 2 with,--who 2 wil 2 wigwam Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 273665 be 84128 have 15799 do 15618 see 14192 make 12383 say 11026 take 9305 give 9296 go 9254 find 8997 come 7643 know 6505 seem 6025 look 5627 think 5610 call 5553 pass 5303 leave 4558 stand 4458 become 4394 tell 3999 appear 3732 get 3604 follow 3596 bring 3083 build 3043 hear 3006 enter 2984 show 2943 remain 2932 begin 2922 write 2863 put 2835 keep 2813 live 2773 hold 2756 receive 2648 carry 2631 meet 2615 form 2604 speak 2572 rise 2563 turn 2529 lead 2444 bear 2434 believe 2432 use 2428 fall 2400 feel 2321 set Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 38162 not 18324 so 15541 more 15253 very 14672 great 11420 most 11238 little 11092 other 9799 only 9669 now 9608 well 9546 much 9322 old 8653 good 8644 here 8549 many 8467 as 8315 up 8084 first 7280 then 6844 long 6316 even 6237 out 6094 still 5861 such 5741 same 5582 french 5146 however 4898 also 4894 own 4736 too 4728 few 4713 there 4684 never 4617 large 4505 high 4359 down 4181 last 4065 small 3903 fine 3825 far 3690 new 3574 beautiful 3563 almost 3556 once 3537 just 3478 young 3452 ever 3399 again 3391 less Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2170 most 2131 good 2087 least 851 great 578 fine 519 high 288 early 256 large 236 bad 200 Most 199 slight 182 rich 181 old 179 near 160 low 149 small 130 eld 110 late 103 noble 96 strong 80 pure 73 happy 71 deep 69 long 68 poor 62 bright 56 young 53 strange 51 rare 49 full 48 grand 44 lovely 44 fair 43 c'' 42 mean 42 manif 42 handsome 41 sweet 41 simple 41 lofty 38 short 38 dear 37 warm 37 topmost 37 pleasant 37 gay 36 choice 33 common 31 e 27 wise Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9250 most 295 least 261 well 8 near 5 highest 4 worst 4 long 4 brightest 3 oldest 3 hard 3 est 2 soon 2 sky,--the 2 richest 2 odor,--the 2 infest 2 deepest 1 warmest 1 wanderest 1 ugliest 1 sternest 1 st.-waast 1 shortest 1 oftenest 1 nile"--the 1 library:--the 1 latest 1 justest 1 heurêka_]"!--the 1 handsomest 1 goethe 1 gentlest 1 gayest 1 formost 1 fittest 1 finest 1 fast 1 farthest 1 falsest 1 early 1 ear?--the 1 clearest 1 blackest 1 archpriest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 gallica.bnf.fr 10 www.gutenberg.net 9 www.gutenberg.org 7 dp.rastko.net 2 www.archive.org 2 archive.org 1 www.freeliterature.org 1 visualiseur.bnf.fr Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 9 http://gallica.bnf.fr 6 http://dp.rastko.net 3 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43209/43209-h/43209-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43209/43209-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37937/37937-h/37937-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37937/37937-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35068/35068-h/35068-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35068/35068-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34772/34772-h/34772-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34772/34772-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16485 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/8/8/27881/27881-h/27881-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/8/8/27881/27881-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/9/21996/21996-h/21996-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/9/21996/21996-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/2/20124/20124-h/20124-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/2/20124/20124-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/8/8/19882/19882-h/19882-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/8/8/19882/19882-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/0/8/18080/18080-h/18080-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/0/8/18080/18080-h.zip 1 http://www.freeliterature.org 1 http://www.archive.org/details/carthatwentabroa00painuoft 1 http://www.archive.org 1 http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-102009 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1034792 1 http://dp.rastko.net/ 1 http://archive.org/details/intrackofrlsteve00hammuoft 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58 one does not 25 _ is _ 24 people are not 23 _ was _ 21 one is not 19 _ is not 19 people do not 18 streets are narrow 14 _ was not 14 _ were _ 13 _ are not 13 paris is not 13 things are not 12 _ did not 12 _ do _ 12 days gone by 12 france is not 11 _ are _ 11 _ is still 11 one has only 10 church is not 10 church is very 10 day was fine 10 one is apt 10 one is inclined 9 _ do n''t 9 _ does not 9 _ see _ 9 one did not 9 town does not 8 _ did _ 8 france does not 8 france had not 8 one is surprised 8 people are more 8 streets are not 7 _ has _ 7 church is still 7 day is not 7 day was so 7 france has ever 7 france was not 7 house is not 7 life was not 7 man is not 7 men are not 7 one is almost 7 one is likely 7 one is so 7 one looks down Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 things are not so 4 france had not yet 4 one is not surprised 3 _ is no longer 3 _ is not _ 3 people are not so 2 _ are not only 2 _ did not long 2 _ had no relations 2 church has no pretensions 2 church is not less 2 day is no whited 2 day was not yet 2 france has no longer 2 france has not yet 2 france have not more 2 france is not far 2 france is not only 2 house is not large 2 life is not long 2 life were no easy 2 man is no longer 2 man is not always 2 man is not liable 2 men do not often 2 men make no such 2 one does not often 2 one had not leisure 2 one has no time 2 paris have no resource 2 people are not less 2 people have no point 2 people were not free 2 place were not yet 2 places are not less 2 rooms are not so 2 street does not always 2 streets are not more 2 thing was not pleasing 2 time did not exclusively 2 time is not far 2 town is not overclean 2 wall was not difficult 2 walls were not as 2 way was not particularly 2 women are no longer 2 women are not pretty 2 women are not superior 2 women went no farther 2 work was not however Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 231435 8998 217318 42231 205552 21498 201441 11996 191690 20124 171169 7881 155411 26524 145913 12930 143622 2311 131465 44777 131005 26450 125324 19983 122232 17624 116845 44776 114265 12990 113301 45336 112966 17760 110120 16224 109564 17107 104188 11298 98866 37344 98288 13044 97696 7961 97562 7373 92571 38997 91474 39710 89279 45567 88686 37937 86305 35068 85753 7879 85654 16445 85403 7880 85279 12538 84020 35212 84008 8819 82637 35125 81170 16943 80830 12064 78373 46035 77601 27881 76885 28004 74541 6164 70406 43844 69443 11994 68606 37211 68606 45790 68337 20296 68151 21256 68068 46321 67232 46678 66038 12537 65264 20263 64385 11993 63739 20891 62658 29820 62333 34772 61571 9480 61447 33319 60024 46069 57971 43209 57335 8936 56992 20464 53343 8412 52290 11898 49349 22718 48340 18080 47275 16485 45736 22956 45186 35678 42473 42954 41840 8505 41352 21996 38644 11992 38257 40306 37104 18327 37017 52706 35862 16994 34986 14857 34813 535 34311 14233 33902 49318 31706 10864 29203 11995 26258 47233 25225 47213 22981 19882 22369 20304 20183 10813 18531 8595 17918 45076 17495 16518 14142 33249 12473 8594 10867 8593 6442 13048 5483 23460 1777 28959 24818 24519 2159 25624 24452 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 96.0 23460 89.0 33249 89.0 28959 86.0 13048 85.0 22956 85.0 33319 85.0 12930 84.0 18327 84.0 19882 84.0 7373 83.0 7961 82.0 21996 82.0 42954 82.0 35068 81.0 45790 80.0 37937 80.0 6164 79.0 8819 79.0 49318 79.0 16994 79.0 535 79.0 20263 78.0 35125 77.0 14233 77.0 37211 77.0 16943 77.0 20304 77.0 16224 77.0 17107 76.0 46035 76.0 43844 76.0 16518 76.0 44776 75.0 45567 75.0 47233 74.0 11298 74.0 29820 74.0 46069 74.0 47213 74.0 17624 73.0 8593 73.0 35212 73.0 46321 73.0 20464 73.0 8412 73.0 40306 73.0 45336 73.0 10813 73.0 21498 73.0 14857 72.0 21256 72.0 37344 72.0 11898 72.0 20124 72.0 39710 72.0 43209 71.0 9480 71.0 28004 71.0 52706 71.0 26450 71.0 26524 71.0 46678 71.0 34772 71.0 44777 70.0 45076 70.0 8594 70.0 8505 70.0 22718 70.0 27881 70.0 19983 70.0 10864 70.0 38997 70.0 2311 70.0 7881 70.0 7880 69.0 18080 69.0 8595 69.0 42231 68.0 16485 68.0 12990 68.0 7879 67.0 8936 67.0 8998 67.0 13044 66.0 12538 66.0 16445 65.0 20891 65.0 12537 64.0 20296 64.0 35678 61.0 11992 59.0 12064 59.0 11995 57.0 11996 57.0 11993 55.0 11994 52.0 17760 24818 24519 2159 25624 24452 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10813 A little casement window to the left of the wide entrance-door [Illustration: The Red Cross in the Window] "young table-cloths"--the little Colonel made haste to fold his also. look exchanged, the little Colonel passed out alone. Of a former visit to Versailles we had retained little more than the In cold weather the school-girls wear snug hoods, or little the open-air market rouses Versailles from her dormouse-like slumber and In Versailles Madame does her own marketing, her maid--in sabots and little village of counterfeit rusticity wherein Marie Antoinette loved The Château of Versailles, like the town, dozes through the winter, only time we sat together around the little tree, watching the Soeur light the little room with the red cross on its casement, wherein, although our admirably illustrated by Mr. A.S. Boyd, whose sense of humour happily Mr. Boyd''s illustrations add greatly to the interest and charm of the book. 10864 first gave me the idea of visiting the country called le Bocage, the main road, at the distance of a league, through a country scarcely place; it is now a complete ruin, and a few stones alone mark the spot country, at the time of the French Revolution, when they shared the of the place, as I viewed it at the close of day, occasioned mingled The following day, having taken leave of my hospitable host, who the river forms a small lake, surrounded by a wood at the foot of a French taken, knew for the first time, that the King of England had handsome, having in some places a very singular appearance, from the this mode of warfare, took place: the son of one of the Vendean to be met with than along the banks of the river, and in the country 11298 little staircase cut in the rock, against which the house was built, I had passed through the village of Alvignac--a little watering-place previous day, passing through the little village of St. Laurent-les-Tours, which lies immediately under the old fortress after rocked his little vanity like the rest of mortals. been little changed by the smoke, but stand like white figures of are the dirty little streets like crooked lanes, where old women, who this old houses, half brick, half wood, still cling, like those little walked round the little church, knee-deep in the long grave-grass, and little towns, watching the same people growing old, and spending only seeing rocks covering several acres, and looking like the ruins of a years old, and she had great trouble to keep her little brown feet clambers over ruined houses and old walls built on to the rock, and 11898 In the distance, the blue Pyrenees look like a bank of clouds; the air My third day''s journey brought me to the ancient city of Blois, the The Castle of Amboise stands high above the town, like another These great towers and the exquisite little chapel were the work of the little tree-bordered place of to-day, which in other times formed the château was built passed great highly colored barges, including a The enormous city heaps its monumental houses along the river like that one may come here and live in melody all day or night, like the towns, which tho forming part of the great city are yet independent, Holland is in great part lower than the level of the sea; It is a singular thing that the great cities of Holland, altho built houses for a long distance lean all one way, like trees beaten by a 11992 French writer has aptly observed, that "En revolution comme en morale, ce the French government appears powerful only in destruction, and inventive their new form of government, do it at present with great sobriety--the I have frequently observed how little taste the French have for the that, on the whole, time passes heavily with a people who, generally Adieu:--the situation of my friends in this country makes me think of destroy a good constitution--and the French may with equal reason grant I observe, in walking the streets here, that the common people still * In times of public commotion people frequently send their valuable a description of the manners of the people of Paris at this moment: the The public papers will now inform you, that the French are at liberty to from the people, that the French are in danger of becoming habituated to 11993 more subject to that human weakness called feeling, than any other people places they are forcing the old ones to abandon, and the people, eager I told you, I believe, in a former letter, that the people of Amiens were heard of, but his death offered an occasion for exciting the people too the people be changed with the form of their government: but, I believe, Convention and the People: every thing is effected by fear--nothing by our revolution is intended to favour the country people, _"c''est The little information generally possessed by the middle classes of life believe, no person acquainted with both nations can discover any thing to general: the people have little preference between Brissot and Marat, Every thing is sacrificed to the army and Paris, and the people the Convention have found time to pass a decree for obliging women to 11994 The great experiment of governing a civilized people without religion of the Convention,* agents of subsistence,** committee men, Jacobin Public Welfare, while it enslaved the convention and the people, was torn Convention joined in accusing Robespierre of tyranny; and Barrere, who people and the Convention are both endeavouring to make instruments of Convention is at war with the Jacobins--and the people, even to the most thousand innocent people to death in less time than it has already taken Convention and the people, the former is much less popular in detail than a certain number of public establishments, and that people shall even be When it is said that a people are republicans, we must suppose they are in the prisons have been put to death by the people: an act of prison, he applied in person to a member of the Convention, to learn when 11995 Nothing proves more that the French republican government was originally regulation, more advantageous to the Convention than the people, keeps The decree of the Convention to the same effect passed about the 1st Maignet was authorized, by an express decree of the Convention, to burn private necessities or afflictions; people who cannot procure bread or it is to describe the political situation of a country governed by no the Cicerone of a country friend on the day the Convention was first to the revolutionary school, or the people of Paris, that Madame The practice of the government appears to depart every day more widely were people of condition); and having occasion to speak to a person at "In the name of the French people the Representatives sent to The Committees of Government, and indeed most of the Convention who have people, long amused by a supposed design of the Convention to place the 11996 the French government appears powerful only in destruction, and inventive that, on the whole, time passes heavily with a people who, generally * In times of public commotion people frequently send their valuable the people be changed with the form of their government: but, I believe, Convention and the People: every thing is effected by fear--nothing by our revolution is intended to favour the country people, _"c''est general: the people have little preference between Brissot and Marat, twenty years imprisonment only; but people are guillotined every day for the Convention have found time to pass a decree for obliging women to The great experiment of governing a civilized people without religion Convention is at war with the Jacobins--and the people, even to the most a certain number of public establishments, and that people shall even be people, long amused by a supposed design of the Convention to place the 12064 great respectability inhabiting places so desolate as to strike one We found a good hotel at the landing-place, at which we arrived at a The night was very dark, and a scene of great confusion took place in it appears, have orders not to sell water to persons who travel under landing--Cape Aden--The Town--Singular appearance of the Houses--The landing--Cape Aden--The Town--Singular appearance of the Houses--The obtain a good view of the city from the vessel; it appeared to the midst of an inhabited place, the houses appearing to be fewer in dangers of the Red Sea. With the loss of every thing approaching to good government, Aden lost appears to prevent from taking place every night; I mean the of gentlemen who said that they were looking out for a good place to lady-passengers on the subject of dress--The Shops of Bombay badly lady-passengers on the subject of dress--The Shops of Bombay badly 12537 Plate 11 Sculpture, supposed Roman, in the Church of St. Paul, at Rouen. Plate 12 Circular Tower, attached to the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen. Plate 18 Tower of the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen. DIEPPE--CASTLE--CHURCHES--HISTORY OF THE PLACE--FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION. DIEPPE--CASTLE--CHURCHES--HISTORY OF THE PLACE--FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION. St. Ouen, Bishop of Rouen, dedicated the church in the presence of King good sportsman may, at the present time, between Dieppe and Rouen kill Rouen, at present, holds the fifth place among the towns; though it was [Illustration: Sculpture, supposed Roman, in the Church of St. Paul, at Rouen ] [Illustration: Circular Tower, attached to the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen] The first church at Rouen was built about the year 270: three hundred [Illustration: Tower of the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen] [Illustration: Head of Christ, in the Church of St. Ouen, at Rouen, seen in front] 12538 Plate 41 Tower of St. John''s Church, at Caen building at least of equal antiquity with the great church. [Illustration: Ancient trefoil-headed Arches in Abbey of Jumieges] the archbishop''s signet.--A crypt, the original burial place of St. Taurinus, is still shewn in the church, and it continues to be the churches of great antiquity, it is not built in the form of a cross, but We visited only one other of the churches in Lisieux, that of St. Jacques, a large edifice, in a bad style of pointed architecture, and FRENCH POLICE--RIDE FROM LISIEUX TO CAEN--CIDER--GENERAL APPEARANCE AND FRENCH POLICE--RIDE FROM LISIEUX TO CAEN--CIDER--GENERAL APPEARANCE AND [Illustration: Tower and Spire of St. Peter''s Church, at Caen] [Illustration: Sculpture upon a Capital in St. Peter''s Church at Caen] [Illustration: Tower of St. John''s Church, at Caen] _Trinity Holy, church of the abbey of the_, at Caen, now a work-house, 12930 SIR JOHN LAUDER, first Baronet, Lord Fountainhall''s father house being one of the Kings Counsellers; yet these we saw ware wery rich; Lord; he finding the answer wery good, he immediatly went and told the King the toune we saw on each hand a brave stately house belonging to my Lord of Item given to my wife for the house, a dollar. Given to my wife for the use of the house and other things, 4 dollars. Item, given hir for the use of the house on the 1 of August 21 dollars. Item, given to my wife for the use of the house, 8 dollars. Item, given to my wife for the use of the house, 8 dollars. Item, given to my wife for the use of the house, 8 dollars. Item, given to my wife on the 9 day of June 1673, 6 dollars. 12990 A general officer, whom I personally knew, looked like one who within reasonable reach of the mass; but, in a country like France, I test of public opinion, I walked out, the morning they took place, to I have often told you how picturesque and beautiful Paris appears viewed The country people, of whom there were a good many present, looked on want of good feeling on either side, little was said, during this visit, great men submit to very little influences occasionally.[20] The old but little for the traveller, at the same time saying a good word for we taking the way to the great lodging-house, which, like most of the views, which old-established and great nations possess over one like our left America, came, like her goods, through two or three great channels, Swiss Country-house.--English Customs affected in America.--Social Swiss Country-house.--English Customs affected in America.--Social 13044 and great-grand-children, all remarkable for their good looks, and French people, however, remain so short a time at table, and dine so good taste of every class of women in Paris in dress, precludes those We saw the house for the first time yesterday; engaged it to-day for a The attention paid by young men to old women in Parisian society is We feel like children with a new plaything, in our beautiful house; but The Duc and Duchesse de Guiche leave Paris, to my great regret, in a are in general said to be, and appears to be as good-natured as she is Like most people remarkable for good looks, General d''Orsay is reported Old people like these appear to forget, as they are forgotten by, time; How little do we know people whom we meet only in general society, in and amusing man, with remarkably good manners, a great knowledge of the 13048 _The Radcliffe Unit in France collaborated with the French Red Cross in walked through the old tennis court where a little summer house remained "Ah, I have had good times here," she said in the expressionless voice Shall I tell you about the old woman and her statue of Sainte Claire? visits, living in her clean little house that had been well mended. "_Voilà ma Sainte Claire!_" exclaimed the old peasant woman, crossing for thirteen months, Madame, I lived in this hole with Sainte Claire It was Sainte Claire, Madame, who Mademoiselle Froissart and I left the _Poste de Secours_ one day, and from Mademoiselle Froissart, out of the corner of my eye I saw a machine "Just one old man," said the poilu, "who lives all alone in his cellar, "Mademoiselle, I accept them with my profound thanks," said the old determined little face with its deep set blue eyes, and sharp features 14233 thrown at its feet like a mass of pebbles at the foot of a rock, looks like an imposing fortress, with its large towers pierced by long, narrow which covers the grey stones and sways in the wind, like an immense Presently, a long, balmy breeze swept over us like a sigh, and the trees The open sky, the growing grass, the passing wind. After passing over large pieces of rock that have been placed in the sea stone, it looks like one of those hollowed rocks which contain salt little, it separated and spread like the hair of a woman. and the pools of water coloured by the setting sun looked like immense clogged wheel, you follow the wall by stepping on large stones placed in sea-weed dot the beach and look like black spots on its light surface. After following a long wall, we entered through an old door into a 14857 your glorious Sun King, the Grand Monarch, Louis the Fourteenth, build England, then seeking refuge in France, Louis XIV dined at Versailles annalist of that epoch, Versailles, under the new orders of the King, new buildings containing the state apartments of the King and Queen and Visitors to Versailles view the private or "little" apartments of King "Versailles and the Court Under Louis XIV." "The The King, the Queen, and all the Court took their seats The Sun King built Versailles and established his Court there. Madame de Maintenon conducted the Queen to the door of the King''s room, years after the death of Louis XIV, one of the new King''s first of Louis XIV rooms were added for the favorites of the King. Marble Court, above the private apartments of the King. In the Chamber of Louis XIV the King and Queen examined the Versailles, this time in honor of the King of Spain. 16224 Librarian to the Public Library at Rouen, led the way in the work of _Place Royale_, where the library is situated, form very agreeable spaces He rarely visits Caen, although a great portion of his library Revolution; but the public library became possessed of a great number of wished a copy of the work to be deposited in the public library at to take away as many books as he wanted for the public library at Caen... towers of the great cathedral-like looking church having a grand and even folio--UPON VELLUM--in the Royal Library at Paris, ii 134 folio--in the Public Library at Augsbourg, iii 101 folio--UPON VELLUM, in the Imperial Library at Vienna, iii 316 copy in the Public Library at Caen, i 211 ---1474, folio, in the Public Library at Caen, i 208 ---1474, folio, in the Public Library at Caen, i 208 16445 Prefatory introduction to a work like this, can hope little better usage speaking only of the little places we passed through in coming along. terminating with a beautiful view of the surrounding country, like spots thousand comical things in the same way, I will relate one:--Mr. Piozzi''s valet was dressing my hair at Paris one morning, while some man England, friend, said I, do you like it?"--"Mais non, madame, pas so many times reason to expect; and I do believe that Venice, like other I expressed to the French lady my admiration of St. Mark''s Place. a country, till I left trusting to books, and looked a little about me. If any thing in England seem to excite their wonder and ill-placed This reflection felt like one naturally suggested to me by the place; pleasures, which the inhabitants of another place think _they_ would use 16485 is a dirty world, but like France, has a vast number of good things in are not many parts of France where a man, who has but little money, can In a very few days I shall leave this town, and having procured letters here a little; but I will only ask you, in which state think you man is France, you meet with an infinite number of people travelling on foot, great number of towns, villages, castles, _chateaux_, and farm-houses; to the General Post-office, where I went every day for my letters, I neither man, woman, or child came near us, till I asked for water, and days ill in that house; but was attended by the priests of the town with genteel-looking young man, said he came from _Italy_, and was going to with a great number of country houses, but the plain also affords a 16518 rose of the bright streets abroad, their quaint old towers, and seen--sea and land, old towns in different countries, strange people, The little old harbour, like that of some fishing-place, offered thought of the brave little vessels, which through day and night, year Crossing the _place_ again, I come on the grim old church, built by It seemed like an old country-house transferred to town. are a few little shops, a few old houses, but the generality have from the old town with a sort of regret, having seen a great deal. This old town has other curious things to exhibit, such as the Like the old Calais watch-tower, it was piquant bell-tower seen rising above trees and houses, long before we When they had gone their way, I set off on mine up to the old town. The streets of this old town, as it is remarked by one of the Guide 16943 the great men of Paris and of France; and among them, a few of the student wished to leave Paris for the day on business, and asked my This is one reason why the poor people of Paris on _fete_ days, crowd to fact, that the whole past history of Paris and France is written in her disgraceful condition Paris and all France occupies at the present time, Many young Americans are in Paris, at the present time, the most distinguished men of Paris and France, and is by far the most body of men in Paris and in France--a majority of the people--who upon history of the great men of France, not only in the present day, but in great men who made Paris their home and final resting-place. the people of Paris, is still very great. In France, much more in Paris, the name of Corneille is to-day half 16994 man attacked me on my way to or from the town, where I went every day, I beautiful, but near the town scarce any vegetation is seen; on all sides yet that Lady did not mean to deceive; but people often prefer the town four following letters, M.L.M.E. _Francis_ the First, passing thro'' _Avignon_, visited this tomb, and passed through so many great and little towns, and extensive provinces, Any young gentleman traveller, particularly _of the English nation_, who tell you on my journey onwards, that I visited a little town in Between these two towns we met an English servant, in a rich laced We made two little days'' journey from _Fontainbleau_ to _Paris_, a town peut-etre pas la meme signification ce que nous appellons Grelot est une petite cochette fermee que l''on attache aux hochets des enfans pour les C''est loin des faux plaisirs que l''on trouve les vrais. 17107 second, where are placed the EDITIONES PRINCIPES, and other volumes printed letter, exclusively devoted to a similar account of the PRINTED BOOKS. The present is a fine genuine old copy: in faded yellow morocco binding-SOME ACCOUNT OF EARLY PRINTED AND RARE BOOKS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY. THE SAME EDITION.--This is a sound and desirable copy, printed UPON VELLUM; to learn, that copies of this beautifully printed book are by no means very book was sold to the Royal Library of France, many years ago, by Mr. Payne, This fine copy is printed UPON VELLUM, in a large volume of interesting old French poetry, UPON VELLUM, which is printed in fine genuine copy--in old French binding, with the royal arms. [62] [There is a fine copy of this very rare edition in the Public Library and beautiful copy--with large, and genuine margins--printed UPON VELLUM. some very beautiful copies of books printed in the fifteenth century. 17624 they have a fine copy UPON VELLUM, like that in the Althorp Library; but I book-cases are so high as to cover a great portion of the painting--viewed which book I omitted to mention a copy in the Public Library here.[19] [31] His account of the PRINTED BOOKS in the XVth century, in the monastery or of BLOCK BOOKS in the public library of this place; and shall begin with Among the more precious ITALIAN BOOKS, is a remarkably fine copy of the old room--discoursing about first editions, block-books, and works printed upon early-printed books in the PUBLIC LIBRARY of Landshut. a good sound copy of the very rare edition of _Mammotrectus_, printed by VELLUM BOOK, was a copy of the same work of St. Austin, printed chiefly by A fine large copy; but not equal to that in the Royal Library at A very fine copy of a well printed book. 17760 a handsome and regular street, called the Rue Royale, rises in majestic the first appearance of Paris as you are borne through the Faubourg St. Denis; the street, it is true, is wide and the houses large, but they many noble institutions in different parts of France, Paris derived but succeeding reigns Paris appeared to make but little progress; some different merchants who arrive at Paris from the various parts of France We now re-enter the Rue de la Harpe, and notice the Royal College St. Louis, originally founded by Raoul Harcourt in 1280; the present ancient families of France have their town residences; the Rue St. Dominique is of the same description, and many others in this Rue Franc Bourgeois, is the Hôtel de Hollande, so called from its having France; the foreign merchant now feels that in visiting Paris he shall perhaps is not the case in all houses in Paris; persons wishing to view 18080 The descriptions of places and buildings in Normandy call for little or little town of PONT AUDEMER, with its quaint old gables, its galleries, and streets of time-worn buildings--centuries old. passing visit to Pont l''Evêque, another old town a few miles distant. The quiet contemplation of the old buildings in such towns as Pont old covered market-place, and the extent of the boundaries of the town, The approach to the town of Bayeux from the west, either by the old road century; we see the great Gothic hall of the Knights of Mont St. Michael, with its carved stone-work and lofty roof, supported by three town, as at Falaise, growing round its feet; also an old church at the busy, modern town; if its old houses and streets are being swept away, The watering-places of Normandy are so well known to English people that the best old work from view; and one whole street of wooden houses 18327 at Mrs. Rowe''s he said he could ever get a good English round of toast), "My life is a long misery, Jane," Mrs. Rowe said, under her voice. "My dears," said Mr. Cockayne, "we must husband our time. Does the reader perceive by this time the kind of lady Mrs. Cockayne was, and what a comfort she must have been to her husband in "My dear," said Mr. Cockayne, addressing his wife, "people find Paris "Do you hear that?" said Mrs. Cockayne, addressing her husband. "Yes; and there was another, my dear," said Mrs. Cockayne, "''To the fine "My dears," said Mrs. Cockayne to her daughters, "it would be positively "What on earth can your father want here?" said Mrs. Cockayne, pausing lady told Mrs. Cockayne that, after waiting four hours in the crowd, she "Carrie, my dear," Mrs. Cockayne observed, having called her daughter to 19882 CORSICA, its Rail, Carriage and Forest Roads, with 6 Maps from the important of the Forest roads extends S.W. to Porto by and Porto great Forest roads penetrate into the interior 16 railway and the road between Ajaccio and Corté near Vivario 27 The road now from Corté to Bastia traverses the Quilico Col, 1932 ft., the Francardo bridge, 856 ft., where it meets the great Forest Road from Junction here with road to Corté, 55½ miles, south-east, passing through miles eastwards to the Col Capronale, 4495 feet, in the forest of Ometa. the road having passed over the Col Staggiola, 930 feet, within a short valley of the Asco, with magnificent forest trees, to the village of the Col Cesario, 1200 ft., 10½ m.; the villages of Feliceto, inn, pop. Five miles beyond Cauro, the Sartène road attains the summit of the Col S.W. This forest road, No. 4, ascends the valley of the 19983 great attention to the use of aperients; I believe all is said that an old like any other "land-fall," merely pleasant; and I even looked upon St. Paul''s as an old and a rather familiar friend. case at the time the little occurrence I am about to relate took place. think it vulgar to receive in her great drawing-room of a morning, I was near the little gate, when an old man, in a strictly court dress, their great advantages, or properly understand how much a place like New may surprise you, as coming from a nation as old and as great as France; true state of the case, he merely observed, "He is a great man;" and yet I have met with a good many people of the old court at Paris, and though house; but, in France, many little things are found, it is not usual to 20124 though the town is too light and cheerful-looking at the present day, to charming view of the town and castle, and fine country round. convents, every year, all round the walls of the said town, within, the more fully to love the said Church, suddenly appeared to me the Blessed At mid-day we reached Niort, a fine, clean, good-looking new town, with young man whose remarkably handsome face and figure was little set off "Good friend," said the young man, "you seem in great recollections of times long past, such as few towns in France can now generally good complexions, rich colour, fine dark eyes and very long told us she was from Le Mans, a great way off, in a charming country, curious door-way, which appeared like the entrance to a church, and was There are few old towns in France, which can be called fine in 20263 Boswell writes to tell his friend Temple--"I have hopes that our Johnson draws between Boswell''s Account of Corsica, which forms more volume of letters that passed between Boswell and his friend The _great man_ now," he writes to his friend Temple. of letters, his book on Corsica brought him far greater pleasure than Boswell, I shall not praise your letter, because I know you have [Footnote 22: Boswell in a letter to his friend Temple, dated May 1st Dear ERSKINE,--What sort of a letter shall I now write to you? He said his great object was to form the Corsicans in such a manner that country." Then turning to the man, "Sir," said he, "Corsica makes it a [Footnote 125: "On the evening of October 10, 1769, I presented Dr. Johnson to General Paoli. [Footnote 130: "''Sir,'' said Johnson, ''I am a friend to subordination, as 20296 Military Tribunal.--French Female Confidence.--Town House.--Convent of fresh linen, a little coffee, and a good night''s repose: her information all their friends to her house_ (a little french fib of Madame F----''s, good landlady, a little plain dinner, such as is suitable to our present places, in order to make room for the reception of the grand National A short time preceding my arrival in France, Bonaparte had rendered general, contrives to exhibit her elegant person to great advantage; by As Monsieur O---pressed me by one hand, and placed that of his little Amongst the english, who were at this time in Paris, a little prejudice were formed to display the different tastes of the english, french, and manners which are even still observed in all the french places of public Madame S----, like a true french mother, was delighted with the little displayed great beauty and fashion, a stage, or tribune, appeared in 20304 possible; and lastly, I wanted to examine the gardens near Paris. The next day, Sunday 29th, early in the morning, we entered Paris, and At Paris I received 42 livres 15 sous for each guinea; soon after which The churches in Paris are not much frequented on the week days, at silver crown piece of six livres has on one side the king''s head in 2. The _French_ playhouse is at present called _Theatre de la Nation_. As to the size of Paris, I saw two very large plans of that city and of carrying heads upon pikes, and of the march of almost all Paris in arms; were then immediately cut to pieces; the people likewise put the Swiss I did not see a _louis d''or_ this time in Paris, it is probable that a [Note 41: I saw many thousands of these men (from my windows) on 20464 Member of The American Industrial Commission to France. The American Industrial Commission in France, organized under the out of place for a delegation of Americans to plan a visit to France and American Industrial Commission to France. American Industrial Commission to France. the world; a thorough French scholar, he had lived many years in France French, for final distribution in France, the report of the Commission. great American Industrial Commission to explore Darkest France. He said the best soldiers of both the French and the German armies were THE FRENCH STEEL INDUSTRY IN WAR TIME THE FRENCH STEEL INDUSTRY IN WAR TIME the American Industrial Commission to France, arrived in New York on the Chairman American Industrial Commission to France. A large number of women are employed in France doing men''s work, on French Steel Industry in war time you so kindly sent me. Member of the American Commission to France, 20891 The distance from Paris to this place is about 24 miles: the road of becomes more cheerful; and its fine old cathedral forms a good central second visit took place; and desirous also to preserve a fine bas relief rest of the town, seen from this point, is broken into fine masses of woody bank, Trevoux affords a perfect idea of a little Tuscan town. view, Lyons really presents a princely appearance.[5] The line of quays bridge is situated a large open space of ground, called Les Brotteaux, appearance of the town itself, indeed, forms a strong contrast both to distance beyond this spot stands Montsegur, a little old fortified town stands on a little rock just out of the town, looking on the sea, and rocks; on entering which the town of Saorgio appears, after a mile or The road appears to be commanded by no spot 21256 Conversation with a French Veteran_--_Character of Mr. Parker''s Hotel_--_Departure, and romantic Road_--_Fête Champetre _Departure from Avignon_--_Olive and Mulberry Fields_--_Orgon_--_St. Canat_--_French Divorces_--_Inn at St. Canat_--_Aix_--_Situation_--_Cathedral_--_Society_--_Provisions_--_Price _Morning View of Port--Arrival and landing--A Day at Calais.--French _Morning View of Port--Arrival and landing--A Day at Calais.--French occasion frequently to observe, that the French ladies infinitely excel the country towns of England; the French without hats, with close caps, _General Character of the Town--Public Walk--Gardens--Half-yearly _General Character of the Town--Public Walk--Gardens--Half-yearly let no traveller assert that France is a country of open fields; moderate," said Mr. Younge, "the price of land in France, both as to fell in with two young girls, the daughters of the better kind of French and lovely country, and there is certainly not a town in France or in _Comparative Estimate of French and English Country Inns--Tremendous _Comparative Estimate of French and English Country Inns--Tremendous 21498 Aire-sur-la-Lys--Local and general elections in France--A public meeting the great historic France of the French people; and with submitting to The Third French Republic, as it exists to-day, is just ten years old. deal of the social and political life of France, and I long ago learned work, not of the French people, but of the kings of France, not less but religion out of France, and the education of the French people into what councillors-general in France; and it is evident that the French local the men who then got control for a time of the government of France, in country a farm worth 30,000 francs eight years ago, to-day would not have seen and known of France, that the people in a place like Château ''true Republic'' leave the working-men of France, so far as co-operation Vicar-General of Paris receives no more than 4,500 francs a year. 2159 21996 In old French towns, the words boulevard and tramway are American and English visitors to the Riviera soon come to know Cagnes by see the city set on a hill between Cannes and Nice. "No livery stable in this town--come five francs on it," said the Artist. separate at Villeneuve-Loubet, a mile back from the Nice-Cannes road. panorama of the Riviera, sea and mountains, towns and valleys, lay before On a hill a mile or so back from the Cannes-Nice road, just before one For tourists, Nice is the center of the Riviera, the place to come back Artist confessed to me that in student days the Riviera meant Nice to quay and keeping the Old Town on the left, you come to the castle hill, Cannes-Grasse road after you pass the ten-kilometer stone on the way to there was a time, long before Roman days, when Fréjus, like the towns of 22718 Within the French Church from early times, these two great forces were of true mediæval greatness, it is the finest church of the city. and is a little dead city, the seat of an ancient Provençal "Cathedral parish church is of the very far past, having lost its Cathedral rank small, Saint-Jérome is large, where the old church is simple, the newer created the Church of Saint-Mary, co-cathedral with that of Notre-Dame the Church in the tight little city of the Provençal hills. church, the traveller passed under the old round arch of the Bishop''s The little Cathedral-churches of Provence are See and its lost city, the Cathedral-church was established at the light of its every-day life, the great height of the church and its However, as a Bishop must have a Cathedral-church, the Church of Saint-Michel which has been the Cathedral since 1803, a 22956 Rollo and Jennie were at this time at the window, looking at the "Father," said Rollo, "I wish you would let Jennie and me go to Paris by father and mother were to go one way, and her uncle George and Rollo So Mr. George went back to the boat, and Rollo continued his walk, "Uncle George," said Rollo, "he wants my ticket." "This way, uncle George," said Rollo. "I would rather go to the garden," said Rollo, looking toward Jennie. "Ah, Jennie," said Rollo, "look at these cakes! "Jennie," said Rollo, as he walked along with her across the room, "I am "Uncle George," said Rollo, "here is a boy that cannot talk. "Come, Carlos," said Rollo, "let us go into uncle George''s room, and see "I have been with uncle George," said Rollo. "Then," said Rollo, "when we came away from this place we walked along 2311 The case of Smollett''s Travels, there is good reason to hope, is clever people about Nice in modern times, one would probably find that French history both as the home of famous men in great number and as, great way out to sea, sometimes even as far as the coast of England. Sussex pay English gold for great quantities of French brandy, tea, day, in the skirts of the town, a great number of females thus mounted, in a day or two for Montpellier, although that place is a good way out great body of excellent water, which by pipes and other small branching Next day we journeyed by the way of Antibes, a small maritime town, It contains several small towns, and a great number of villages; chiefly supplied by a small stream of very fine water; another great What further I have to say of Nice, you shall know in good time; at 23460 Said he, last Easter, "I propose, for Nellie, Dennis, Mabel, Rose, The Passengers look bright, and say, "Are we not lucky in the day!" Dennis and Rose and Mabel, walking upon the deck, are gaily talking-Says Rose, to Dennis drawing nigher, "I think the wind is getting "If a gale blows, do you suppose, we shall be wrecked?" asks little Rose. "Come and buy us, quick, to-day!" Rose says--"Good-night!"--to Bertie fast asleep, He knows a long, long time ere one draws near, Children are happy with "Sister" all day, Went one day with Mamma for a long country walk, The whole day long, from morning to night, A little old man comes walking along: With little Rose and Mabel side by side; Rose and Mabel side by side;--Bertie watching while they ride. Then, I''m sorry to say, dear Nellie and May, Rose, Dennis, and Bertie 24452 24519 24818 25624 26450 monarchy: "Paris, France and the Dukes and Kings of the French, are induced the king to found the abbey and church of St. Vincent (St. Germain des Prés), to receive the relic and a great part of the spoil In the early sixth century the abbots of St. Germain des Prés at Paris held possession of nearly 90,000 acres of Paris, cradle of the great French Monarchy and home of art, learning Melun, Abelard returned to Paris and opened a school on Mont St. Genevieve, whither crowds of students followed him. [Footnote 95: In 1421 and 1422 the people of Paris had seen Henry V. would never return in Paris until there were a French king, the [Footnote 106: Students in Paris in the days of King Francis had cause Paris_, the king began to pull down the great tower of the Louvre, in 26524 France, and by the great body of the French people. estimates the number of Protestants in France at that time to published a "Letter to the Pastors of France at present in Protestant to return with him into France, in order to collect the Protestant When Brousson visited the place, the remaining Protestants resided England sent the Huguenots remaining in France considerable help in When Court began to reorganize the Protestant Church in France, francs.[71] The number of young girls taken from Paris to this place to France, often visited the Protestant prisoners at the galleys, Since that time the Protestants of France have remained comparatively principal Huguenot places of refuge in France. Huguenot friends--who had by that time reached England in great persecution of the Protestants in the Vaudois and Cevennes mountains. The Huguenots at one time constituted a great power in France; but hold the valleys and defend the mountain passes against France. 27881 Paris en route, but Miss Cassandra begged for a few days on Lake Como, Miss Cassandra and Lydia do not know, and we have no good histories or old château of Plessis-les-Tours, which Louis built and fortified to Walter never saw this château, but like many other places that he was and died at Amboise, inhabiting a little manor house near the château. correct Polly''s English or Miss Cassandra''s French, for as Walter says, husbands in those days," said Miss Cassandra. being a French woman, evidently resented and said she had little love time, as she gave no end of trouble to her husband, the good King Louis. "Good King Louis, indeed!" exclaimed Miss Cassandra. our thoughts turn back to the time when the kings and nobles of France By the time we reached the château, we were, as Miss Cassandra Walter warned us, little time to loiter by the way, great as the 28004 towers, rising above the little Place de l''Archevêché, lift their Originally placed in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was but which makes a great impression--the very interesting old church of place--a very definite little woman, with pointed features, an intensely Saussaye, the author of the very complete little account of the place on the left bank of the river--a little white-faced town staring across should mention that we spent a great deal of time in looking at the old grey arch beneath a fine clock-tower, I had passed through on my way little garden is formed, on the side that turns away from the town, by you look over it at the charming little vegetable-gardens with which the completed, to my great satisfaction, my little tour in France. (there is no _place_ in France too little to contain an effigy to a last century--a dear old place, with little blue-green perspectives and 28959 CHAPTER III Concerning Rouen, the Ancient Capital of Normandy CHAPTER IV Concerning the Cathedral City of Evreux and the Road to Bernay CHAPTER V Concerning Lisieux and the Romantic Town of Falaise CHAPTER VII Concerning Mont St Michel THE CHURCH AT GISORS, SEEN FROM THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN CASTLE left of the railway the little Norman Church of Notre-Dame-sur-l''Eau. THE CLOCK GATE, VIRE CHAPTER I��ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY CHAPTER IX��FROM PICKERING TO RIEVAULX ABBEY THE FOREST AND VALE OF PICKERING IN PALAEOLITHIC AND PRE-GLACIAL TIMES HOW THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF BRITAIN AFFECTED THE FOREST AND VALE OF PICKERING, B.C. 55 TO A.D. 418 THE FOREST AND VALE IN NORMAN TIMES, A.D. 1066 TO 1154 Concerning the Villages and Scenery of the Forest and Vale of Pickering South Side of the Nave of Pickering Church Wall Paintings in Pickering Church Font at Pickering Church 29820 A little to the right lies the one-time cathedral of Notre Dame, architectural splendours, which, with the Cathedral of Notre Dame, form architecturally, with the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame de Reims. Of all the cathedrals of France, Notre Dame de Paris is most firmly western façade, the grand portal of the usually accepted great church secular monuments, headed by the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame, form an is the fact that this cathedral is the only Gothic church, so ranking, a wonderful old church which at one time ranked as a cathedral, and port, the Cathedral of Notre Dame exists to-day more as a monument to throughout France during the five centuries of church building in the In general this thirteenth-century church is in the best style of its Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Church of St. Pierre. Notre Dame de Coutances is one of the few really great Gothic churches 33249 archivolt topping the semi-circular arch rests on a granite stone The Romanesque church is formed by a two-row nave Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The church is shown here from the north-east Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The old Romanesque church, after a drawing Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The plan of the present church. Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The Romanesque tower is square, and its two Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The Romanesque tower. Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The Romanesque tower. Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. The Romanesque tower. Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. Sketch of the south-western pier of the tower. Saint-Pair-sur-Mer. Detail of the north pier of the tower. built in the 19th century in the north wall of the choir, the church south wall of the nave has a large porch from the 15th century. church gate is opened in the south wall of the nave, with a porch. church of Dragey was given to Mont Saint-Michel in the 11th century by floor is open to the north, south and west by walled-up Romanesque twin 33319 Every thing that Master Lewis said or did was popular with the boys, "Suppose you tell us the story of Joan of Arc, Master Lewis," said "I shall rest to-morrow, boys," said Master Lewis, "and shall let you "We must ask Master Lewis to tell us the whole story," said Wyllys. "An old city may grow," said Master Lewis, on the way to the hotel. "But the sea rose," said Master Lewis, "and the king refused to wear "I have allowed you to visit," said Master Lewis to the boys, "the "Wolsey gave this palace to the king," said Master Lewis; "and the "I shall go with you to-day," said Master Lewis, "to the most "How happy the life of a French king must have been!" said Tommy "How unhappy the lives of French kings have been!" said Master Lewis. "Only three days more remain to us in France," said Master Lewis, 34772 in churches which also contain glass of the next century, we shall mosaic so held up to the light became a stained-glass window. glass windows of the thirteenth century. The set of thirteenth century windows placed about the choir have some church to inspect the attractive fifteenth century canopy windows which splendid panels in the choir clerestory and the fine rose window in the century glass there are two fine examples in the north end of this same place to study sixteenth century glass--its numerous churches are full Of the fifteenth century glass in the cathedral, but little can be said; church, where architecture, white windows and modern glass combine to glass that attracts us most is in the transept rose windows, the lancets Not only in the Cathedral, but also in the church of St. Etienne, do we find excellent glass of the sixteenth century. 35068 Besides facing the Old Port (the ancient harbor) our hotel looked on the but this _oursin_ looked a great deal more like an old, black, stopped in a shady, green place, and picnicked on those good things for King René''s castle does not look like a place for romance. human look stir to life a little way down the row. Joy said, "It would be a good place for bad dreams." The head of the the good French things, ending with fresh strawberries, great bowls of By day Vevey is a busy, prosperous-looking, though unhurried, place, its belonging to a hotel, and came to a little pond where some old men and by an old Frenchman, at a little booth across the way, and we looked battle had taken place, and Joan''s little force for the first time had A little way down the road I had to 35125 The love and knowledge of Alexandre Dumas _père_ for Paris was great, and kilomètres from Paris on the road to Soissons,--Dumas came early in touch coming to the day in which Dumas wrote (1867), Paris was truly--and in There would seem to be no good reason why a book treating of Dumas'' Paris time Dumas had built his own Chalet de Monte Cristo near St. Germain, a Among the women famous in the _monde_ of Paris at the time of Dumas'' Paris of Dumas'' day, this most "famous resting-place" has far more From that time on Dumas may be said to have known Paris intimately--its various aspects of the social and economic life of Paris at the time Dumas Of the bridges of Paris, Dumas in his romances has not a little to say. Conspirators," Dumas places the opening scene at that end of the Pont Neuf "Orleans Bureau," Dumas found his first occupation in Paris,--took place 35212 places which shelter a great cathedral church in the south are of little However, little remains in church architecture of the pre-tenth century diocese is to-day a suffragan of Bourges, and its cathedral of St. Etienne, while not a very ancient structure, is most interesting as to second, the city''s grand architectural monuments, cathedrals, churches, Some have said that this cathedral church dates from the fifth century. The chief ecclesiastical monuments of Aix are the cathedral of St. Sauveur, with its most unusual _baptistère_; the church of St. Jean-de-Malte of the fourteenth century; and the comparatively modern The cathedral of St. Sauveur is, in part, an eleventh-century church. As to its churches, its old twelfth-century cathedral remains to-day a smaller cathedral church of the early eleventh century. Three cathedral churches here before the XIth century Gothic church (not, however, the former cathedral), XVth century 35678 views, and possessed of a wide knowledge of France and the French, for some time past formed a very real portion of French sea power. country, but Paris is the least French portion of France. What does the average middle-class family know of the French residents _sou du franc_ amounts to a considerable sum in the course of a year, French man and woman grow up to do their share in the world''s work it force which sends other peoples out into new lands in great numbers; in France; but the French are not an irreligious people, and perhaps a francs a day, which does not go far in Paris, where the cost of living The breeding of horses in great numbers takes place in the north coast [11] _Château and Country Life in France_, Mary K. French sea-coast watering-places fall easily into two groups--those of 37211 _Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country_ In history the Loire valley is rich indeed, from the days of the ancient important Romanesque churches in all France, and the cathedral of St. Gatien, with its "bejewelled façade," at Tours, the twin-spired St. Maurice at Angers, and even the pompous, and not very good Gothic, Of all the cities of the Loire, Orleans, Blois, Tours, Angers, and The Château de la Source is a seventeenth-century edifice, of no great The great château of the Counts of Blois is built upon an inclined rock François Premier, the ancient Tour de Château Regnault, or De Moulins, little tree-bordered _place_ of to-day, which in other times formed a great events for France were culminating at the château. The interior of the château to-day presents the following remarkable other days which surrounded the old château and its faubourg. the château of Plessis-les-Tours on the Loire, Henri III. 37344 episcopatulos." A French emigrant priest entered my house one day, he said, in great good-nature, "These old women will make a papist of lecture, I said I did not wish to engage in reading a great work in old English reading-rooms are set up at Tours and in other great towns; English family who, arriving early in the evening at an inn in France, want of time to visit this great city, so well worthy of the curiosity passing the day at the place of our visit, and returning in the cool of a man of twenty thousand francs a year lives in a larger house than a From Lyons, where he passed two days, Kenelm took the road to Paris by In the evening of the same day, this same man said to me, "Your son is sea, and into the great square, at one time called Place Napoleon, but 37937 Paris Old and New--The Heart of France--Saint Louis--Old shall see in the course of this book, Paris left the hands of the place of the greater part of English writers visiting Paris who of Paris--which is the large building opposite Sainte Chapelle. Rue Saint-Honoré and the Grands Boulevards were built, and so the city Turning to the left up the Rue Vieille du Temple we come at No. 87 to a very beautiful ancient mansion, with a spacious courtyard, road from Paris to the north and to England, and by the Rue St. Martin Brisemiche, quite one of the best of the old narrow Paris streets, presented his pictures to Paris a few years ago; another room is But the French and English, London and Paris, are not really to be For life in Paris in the days in which this street was des Tournelles, and a few years later Henri IV., to whom old Paris 38997 France.--Pleasure of revisiting Paris after long absence.--What this Young France looks like. indescribable air of gaiety which makes every sunshiny day look like a remark in the literature of France at the present time, is the effect spirit; though probably Paris was no more like the pretty panorama he A stiff but gentleman-like old man first came, and having taken a like general remark; unless, indeed, it be that the air of Paris looking, as I heard a young republican say, "like winged messengers, man said in my hearing; for he assured me the first time I ever saw great king have looked a little farther, and dreamed of the scenes likely to keep the naughty boys of Paris in order as I think his possible that any hour of the day could find a public walk in Paris These rooms were, like every other place in Paris where human beings 39710 by the light of day, brought forward at the same time legions of men a noble lady of the third or fourth degree is likely enough to look a wit and wisdom go a great way, by means of short lines and long stops, truly observes, "C''est là ce qui vous fait valoir dans les compagnies, I know not how it is that people who appear to pass so few hours of manner, according to his account, it appears to work in France. time that I turned my head to look after a sovereign of France. jeune miss--ce qui n''est pas une chose absolument facile dans la hands, which looked like a young lady''s collection of manuscript lovely ladies in the world, n''est-ce pas?--to rise from table, and "Have you read the works of the _young men_ of France?" was the in his days: so are they at the present time in France; so will they 40306 palaces, churches, monuments, streets, and squares; the Paris of Pont Saint-Michel, some old houses still remain which witnessed the The Isle of Saint-Louis is, in some sort, the continuation of the old In the Rue Saint-Louis, is the admirable In this old quarter of the Isle of Saint-Louis, at the confluence of the Little to-day is left of these old walls; but, ten years ago, the hill There was the Rue Saint-Jacques, with its old book-sellers and [Illustration: THE RUE DES PRÊTRES-SAINT-SÉVERIN IN 1866 The Rue Saint-Séverin is a picturesque medley of old houses round the [Illustration: THE CHURCH OF SAINT-NICOLAS-DU-CHARDONNERET, AND THE RUE The Rue de Venise, one of the most ancient Paris streets, is not far My parents knew an old woman, living in the Rue Saint-Merri, who, for those to-day opening into the Rue Saint-Claude came from the ancient [Illustration: THE RUE SAINT MARTIN (1866)--THE GREEN-WOOD TOWER 42231 but Paris destroyed the Bastille." In the days when the great State greatest of the French kings, and at the same time marks the very ground The new house established in the Porte Saint-Martin was opened 109 days Saint-Denis, where, in the burial-place of the French kings, the only Saint-Denis, where, in the burial-place of the French kings, the only in Paris at the time of the New Year, may venture to have dealings with After the days of October the Assembly followed the King to Paris; and the people of Paris, who looked upon the revolution now taking place was living at the time, but in the old palace of the French kings. In the early days of Paris the churches were at Christmas-time made Paris National Guard, on the Place Louis XV., and in the Champs Élysées. In the time of Saint Louis the old Hôtel-Dieu received 900 patients. 42954 neat little figures these women, with their short dark-blue or red descend a flight of stone steps between two high walls, green and dark sun, is busy drying her day''s washing, and a little girl is driving All Bretons love the sun; they are like little children in their western door--meek-faced little people in black pinafores and shiny clean market-day blue linen blouses kneeling on the stone floor, hats on a market-day such as this in an old-world Breton town. one sees fine old archways of gray stone, ancient and lofty--relics of day long she worked steadily in the open place, wielding an immensely white-winged caps, sit all day long sewing broad bands of velvet the convent door that morning, feeling like a little child come home slovenly yellow-faced wife (women in the wilds of Brittany grow old This little town, with its high gray walls, is very important. 43209 [Illustration: "In a little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant little highland town, which lies secure away from railways and can lies La Bastide, a drowsy little town despite its long connection with wife--a fair-haired little woman with cheeks like red apples, dressed taken us some two hours, and we had a long way to travel that day. passing on our way the old castle of Miral and a picturesque church valleys such as these, or in cosy little towns like Pont de Montvert, river only a little way from the road. place precisely as Stevenson pictures it, noting by the way a tiny new withdrawn a little way from the east end of the grand old There are several ways of reaching this little-known corner of France, The little town sits in the mouth of a great ravine that place in days of old, for it is one of the interesting things in the 43844 THE DILIGENCE--OLD GUIENNE AND THE ENGLISH IN FRANCE--BORDEAUX AND A twisted like turbans round their heads--each man and woman with a deep "Only you wouldn''t like to drink it so well," said the Bordeaux man. at the soil, and great wains and carts drawn by oxen, looking like black "The green-looking land," he said, "Pay me," said the imp; and he passed the bird-like hand over the water, while the sand-hills appeared right and left for a moment, and street and the _Place Royale_ look, so far as the passengers go, like not," said the old man. "Look up there!" he said, pointing to a high-wooded ridge to the right; Pyrenees makes the boys and girls look exactly like odd, quaint little dead-and-gone sort of place, of which I asked an old man the name. there is anything like a generally cultivated taste for good wine in "These were the good old times," I said. 44776 exhibition of my Indian Collection for a short time, in the cities of of fashion, where white man was shaking the poor Indian by the hand, the War-chief--Pipe-dance--Shaking hands--Curious questions Indians dancing to make money--Great crowd--Woman screaming Indians--Red paint on their faces and dresses--Old amusement of his friends, upon the curious modes of Indian life into tribes of Indians in America, and paying a visit to my old friends in Indians on the housetops--Great alarm--Curious excitement--People Indians on the housetops--Great alarm--Curious excitement--People Indians--Red paint on their faces and dresses--Old Chief''s _Catlin''s Indian Gallery, Egyptian Hall._--A room 106 feet in length In eight years Mr. Catlin visited 48 tribes, including 300,000 Indians; which are in Mr. Catlin''s Indian Gallery, were painted from life by I have seen Mr. Catlin''s collection of _Indian Portraits_, many I have seen Mr. Catlin''s collection of _Indian Portraits_, many I have seen Mr. Catlin''s collection of _Indian Portraits_, many 44777 War-chief--Shake of hands, and return--Exhibition-room, Son--Indians visit a great brewery--Kind reception by Friends--War-Chiefs reply--Liberal presents--Arrive little _pappoose_--The old Doctor speaks--War-chief''s the Indians--Entries in Jim''s note-book, and Doctor''s Hall--Eagle-dance--The Doctor''s speech--Great amusement of Great pains were taken by the ladies and gentlemen to help the Indians The Doctor and Jim visit several churches--The Indians in St. The Doctor and Jim visit several churches--The Indians in St. Boone and Son--Indians visit a great brewery--Kind reception these Indians, as sure as the world; there will be in a little time the great amusement of the party of Indians, and of Daniel and the the Indians--War-chief''s remarks--Greenock--Doctor''s regret at the Indians--War-chief''s remarks--Greenock--Doctor''s regret at the Indians with great pleasure, and at the time appointed they met "My Friend, we have seen your King (our Great Father) this day, and ''Times,'' he came across a little thing that amused them,--the great 45076 Burgundy, I was conducted to my bed-room, having first seen my fellow &c.; over the fire-place a very fine chimney-glass, and upon a large believe, indeed, that the lower orders in France are generally honest, provincial towns of France; the houses are large, old, and gloomy, There are eight large and very good paintings placed over the stalls, handsome; it is a modern building in a large square, and approached differs from all the churches I have seen here, in having convenient Below the building is the burying place of the great men of France, den, (a large open place inclosed in high walls,) for the purpose of its surrounding houses, in order to form a large square before it, in again returned to Paris upon duty, not having tasted any thing that Returning by the Boulevards, I saw, for the first time, some French Cambray is not a handsome town: the large _Place_ is irregularly 45336 "One day, after leaving the Synod of Paris," writes St. Gregory, "I had bidden King Chilperic adieu and had withdrawn conversing made of the once rich city of Paris a cinder heap; the cathedrals of St. Germain des Prés and of St. Denis alone escaped at the cost of immense St. Denis, and St. Germain, Counts of Paris and Dukes of France, they city with King Louis and Prince Philip at their head. orders, and their church, a burial-place for kings and princes. the kings of France, Louis XVI., was led forth to a bloody death. raised in the great hall, following on the line of the kings of France sixty years of age was made, and the citizen army was reviewed near St. Antoine des Champs, in the presence of the king and queen. Paris_, the king began to pull down the great tower of the Louvre, in 45567 ivy-covered castles, rambling old manors, ruined abbeys, romantic country-seats, haunted houses, great cathedrals and storied churches We shall remember our hotel as the best type of the small-town French overarched by trees--a little like the roads of Southern England, a type quaint old-world place with a single street but a few feet wide. an ancient town of a few thousand people, and an enormous old castle We pursue the river road the rest of the day, though in places it swings and the road often winds up or down a great hill for two or three miles Marxburg, the only old-time castle which has never been in ruin. are familiar with the show-places of the town--we have seen the castle, The sea road takes us into the town by the way of the great suspension beautiful; the country roads enter the town between ranks of splendid 45790 highway where in ancient days stately processions passed to and fro quaint old city, delightfully placid, and its promenade like one great The ancient town of Lauzun with a grand château and church are passed, Chester, but life has left it long ago, and we pass onward and away. day of rest we pass the ancient church and are directed by an old dame, glittering showers of light, and, though this is central France, Mt. Blanc can be seen on a clear day resting cloud-like on the horizon. Our route lay all day long through smiling valleys guarded by ancient Life is all sparkle to-day in this fair city of Tours, her people are As I stand in the old tower to-day gazing all the great church, which even at that day (1189), had neared its ancient city was great, for its heir of to-day is certainly in affluent 46035 or the little old huddled Italian-looking town which hugs both banks of It was that little old town, which the golfer coming up from Mentone I walked back to the town and went into the church, a large eighteenth great church standing high above the roofs of the town from far away. present day, but it contains a good one, something like an old English I had talked at dinner came to Saint-Maximin several times in the year was called the ''holy miracle.'' A great crowd of pilgrims came each year I looked back, I could see the great church standing up across the this great holocaust took place two thousand years ago has lately been d''Enfer of Les Baux, and the pilgrimage church of Saintes-Maries, in I visited this church several times during the days I found myself in little too far to walk in one day, and I wanted to see Aigues-Mortes 46069 Europe," the great examples of architecture of the early days of France Flemish gables, and the beautiful lace like tower of the Town Hall the upper end by the admirable lofty towered Town Hall, was filling fast At the end of a quiet street which crossed the busy and crowded Rue St. Aubert, we came upon the remains of a remarkable old town gate, and Continuing the wandering one reached the fine old town gate, the ancient Arras and Lens, that the great and noble monuments of the ancient town The town was given back to France in 1589, and in the following year was As it is now six great cathedral towns the bells from the ruins of the Cathedral, and the old Town Hall, and the town in great pomp and splendor, remaining for some days with his great towers of the beloved old cathedral, and that the walls of the 46321 century; a charming portrait of Madame de Maintenon in her youth and friends and know this taste for retreat and country life, the man loses the beautiful garden of the bishop''s house at Meaux and the charming abounds in memories, for a great number of the kings of France, from On November 11, 1611, Saint Martin''s Day, in a house of the Faubourg The other "great man," whose memory has been preserved at Juilly is Jean Two windows have been placed in the new church; but there remains a many beautiful works of art still remain in our little churches of charged him to transmit to the King, Martin wishes Louis XVIII good the altar, which was a beautiful work of art of the eighteenth century, know the place of the "King''s Garden," a retreat where Henri IV loved to most beautiful years; the little and the great palisades are adorned 46678 Any review of the castle, chateau and palace architecture of France, and The great tower, or citadel, a part of the royal chateau where the king The chateau belongs to-day to the Vibrave family, who keep open house This fine seventeenth century chateau, with its pointed towers and its The origin of the Chateau des Ducs is blanketed in the night of time. chateau filled its purpose well as a great town house of a wealthy associated with a great chateau of the noblesse of other days. thing to a chateau which Mâcon possesses to-day. Saint-Pont and the Chateau de Lamartine are well worth half a day of The remains existing to-day, and locally called "le chateau," Savoyan city of Yvoire, with a great square mass of an old chateau, now substantial remains of the old chateau to-day--monumental even--make it The walls of the chateau which are to be remarked to-day are probably 47213 _Prince de Galles_ Hotel in Cannes the other day, when the register was Like Bournemouth, Cannes is rich in pines and poor in shops and cabs. The old town, or _Citta Vecchia_, is built on a hill away from the sea, ROME.--Prince Napoleon, the head of the Bonaparte family and _de Emperor placed great reliance upon Prince Napoleon''s judgment. time, however, Prince Napoleon was traveling in Spitzbergen with his at one time Prince Napoleon was a prominent rival of the Emperor. College, and lives in two rooms looking out over the green old "Quad." Bournemouth is a good long way from London: three hours from Great Park with an old Oxford friend, who had known "Prince Eddie" He will have his place in English History; and the memory of my day at Very little of the Prince''s time is spent in amusing himself. baccarat affair is a good illustration of the way in which the Prince''s 47233 On our arrival at Calais a great number of French gentlemen came to to pass in France, unless coined in the present king''s reign. people near ten days to erect the seats and other great works there. civic oath for the members of the national assembly; and that the king of your decrees;--The nation, the law, and the king. the national assembly, and accepted by the king: to protect, according from Paris, and have been told that all the kings of France, excepting Number and Power of the National Assembly.--The King is only an The king is to execute the actual decrees of the National Assembly, I was informed in Paris, that the National Assembly have abolished all "The representatives of the people of France, constituted in national I was told in Paris, that the king would have lost his kingdom, if he _equal laws_ upon so great a number of people. 49318 houses sparkle from afar like scattered snow, and sheds over the sea a "Talk away, we shall have a west wind," replied Bernard. "It feels like a westerly wind, sir." longer leave my eyes; I look at the colour of the water on the horizon. On this little boat, rocked by the sea, that a wave could fill and the days, the nights, the rivers, the seas, the storms, the woods, the Till ten o''clock, we float motionless like a wreck, then a little breath from the open sea starts us on our road, falls, rises again, In our hearts and minds, like an exquisite love-song, the two charming feel, to live like a brute in a warm, clear atmosphere, in a country From the terrace, I should look upon the sea and the white wing-like end, far away in the open sea, beyond the gulf of Saint-Tropez. 52706 that people passing stopped and looked too--bakers'' boys in white linen party of men and women from New York sitting in front of the Café de men and little boys and pretty young girls meet together and chatter little children, and later to crowds of idle men and women. did you come?" The new arrival had reached Paris only three days The man who had lived six years in Paris took the stranger by the arm Those show-places of Paris which are seen only at night, and of which Young men who have spent a couple of weeks in Paris, and who have been "The President of France," he said, "must be a man who can look well on looked like a great market-place. There are a great number of Americans who are only in Paris for the There was a young woman of this class of American visitors to Paris who American women in Paris. 535 of black bread and white, like Father Adam, for myself and donkey, only Scottish-looking man; the mother followed, all in her Sunday''s best, with ''My man knows nothing,'' she said, with an angry nod; ''he is like the old man, who came a little way with me in the rain to put me safely on handsome, silent, dark old woman, clothed and hooded in black like a nun. gone to God. At night, under the conduct of my kind Irishman, I took my place in the stood like a man bewildered in the windy starry night. hill air and crossing all the green valley, sounded pleasant to my ear, If I deceived this good old man, in the like manner I would Thus, talking like Christian and Faithful by the way, he and I came down people turned round to have a second look, or came out of their houses, 6164 air, living things are coming forth to breathe in every hawthorn bush. A great beech tree with a white mark some way up the trunk stood in the white mark looked like a ghostly figure emerging from the dark hedge brook like the grass and birds. cannot be inked in; it is like the green and blue of field and sky, of faint line of hills, a dark cloud-like bank in the extreme distance. times the bird swept round, never so much as moving his wings, till now stems of furze began to shoot, looking at a little distance like moss up ten feet high, like, sapling trees, and flowers at the top, golden like to roam about the fields and woods, and some of them travel long rush by with a sound like a flock of birds whose wings beat the air. Reading such a book is like coming to a hill 7373 the best kind of men) and not in a big place but in a little town, their last abrupt escarpment is the wide plain of the river Aar. Now the straight line to Rome ran from where I stood, right across side road, and, a little later, I saw marching on my right, a long way little picture also shows what the gorge looked like as I came down on little way out of the town I crossed a stream off the road, climbed a not know how many miles, till I reached some cross roads and an inn. valley and makes over a little pass for a place called Schangnau. a long straight road for miles at the base of high hills; then, far So he went his way, and I mine, and the last thing he said to me was made up of a church, I went a little way on the short road to San 7879 are fresco paintings of sacred subjects, and a beautiful picture covers In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they lights burning at the altar, and it looked very like a Christian church; open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, painting in fresco, looking like a whole heaven of angelic people To-day we went to the Colonna Palace, where we saw some fine pictures, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a 7880 gallery, I think I might come to have some little knowledge of pictures. rest of the face, it has a very queer look,--less like a human eye than a We looked pretty thoroughly through the gallery, and I saw many pictures altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it was pleasant, looking downward into the little old piazza and narrow busts, that look like faces of ancient people gazing down out of the streets of old Siena looked very grim at night, and it seemed like gazing way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day we saw what looked a rough village street, betwixt old houses built 7881 In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day 7961 To this little company of Norman men and women, you will, I know, facing the sea--a new and old world of fashion in capes and other "They''re not--they only look old," replied Renard, stopping a moment to a long moment of scrutiny, his eyes following the lean, stately figure shrewd kindly old face came a light that touched it all at once with a little door opened directly on the road, and on the curé''s house. the long day''s drive in the open air, her appetite for blowing roses of three ladies of the court having to pass the night in a rude little voice Madame de Sévigné again turned, with the same charming smile and green of the high roads; for even in the old days there was a great peasant women''s faces, as the bent figures staggered beneath a young and fields, as in the old days the great city walls and the cathedral 8412 Arch Erected by Napoleon Near the Louvre, Paris time of St. Louis onward, the French kings began to live more and more that remains of the old Palace, which, till after the reign of Louis secular burial-place for the great men of France. view of the late Gothic portion of the church from the little Place on Turning east toward Old Paris, we pass, on the right of the Rue St. Honoré, the Church of St. Roch, of which Louis XIV. Our Louis was so great, that the little woes of mean people However that may be, a chapel was erected in 275 above the grave of St. Denis, on the spot now occupied by the great Basilica; and later, Ste. Geneviève was instrumental in restoring it. As yet, Paris itself had no great church, Notre-Dame having attractions of Saint Germain; for the old palace of the kings of France 8505 THE CHURCH AT GISORS, SEEN FROM THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN CASTLE THE GREAT WESTERN TOWERS OF THE CHURCH OF NOTRE DAME AT ST LO extraordinary church tower that stands in the market-place quite detached This splendid Norman building is the church of the Abbey built in as a town whose church is more crowded with elaborately carved stone-work the Place stands the beautiful town belfry built at the end of the Beyond the bridge appear some quaint red roofs with one tower-like house becomes much wider and forms a small Place, is a beautiful old building At the eastern side of the town stands St Croix, a fifteenth century church of the great church of St Germain that dominate the town where Henry II. new church with the two great western towers only carried up to half the Great stone castles were beginning to appear at all the chief places in 8593 THE CHURCH AT GISORS, SEEN FROM THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN CASTLE On the steep hill beyond stands the ruined abbey church. THE GREAT WESTERN TOWERS OF THE CHURCH OF NOTRE DAME AT ST LO extraordinary church tower that stands in the market-place quite detached Tancarville Castle whose walls enclose an eighteenth century chateau. The great castle was built by William the Norman, and it was here that he by the great tower of the parish church as well as by the ruins of the This splendid Norman building is the church of the Abbey built in as a town whose church is more crowded with elaborately carved stone-work the Seine there stands the great and historic Chateau-Gaillard that towers castle that towers upon its hill right in the middle of the town. century a shrine to his memory had been placed outside the walls of Rouen. 8594 over the old town of Evreux as we pass along the cobbled streets. Leaving the Place Parvis by the Rue de l''Horloge you come to the great open the Place stands the beautiful town belfry built at the end of the hamlet with a quaint little church built right upon the roadway with no Beyond the bridge appear some quaint red roofs with one tower-like house becomes much wider and forms a small Place, is a beautiful old building At the eastern side of the town stands St Croix, a fifteenth century church place in such grand old towns as Lisieux in medieval days. The wide and sunny Place Thiers is dominated by the great church of St a close view of the great Tour Talbot, and then pass through a small of the great church of St Germain that dominate the town where Henry II. 8595 narrow little street is flanked by many an old house that has seen most of the early times when Mont St Michel was a bare rock; when it was not even see the rock as it may be seen to-day, although at that time it was crowned commence the building of an abbey, and the unique position of the rock soon groupings of the old houses with their time-worn stone walls, over which The great square tower with its round-headed Norman windows, is crowned height you have reached, St Lo, dominated by its great church, appears on a spend one''s whole time in the great church of the Abbaye aux Hommes, and he was building the great abbey to appease the wrath of the church. church towers seen from the canal as it goes out of the town towards the The great Norman church is so 8819 Honoratus, to rule the churches of Arles, Avignon, Lyons, Vienne, Fréjus, enters the Rhone above Arles, and formed between the chain of Les Alpines of the Durance into the Rhone, are called the great and little Craus. fourteenth century church was added, this little chapel was left standing colonial town into a little Rome was a matter of time only. At Arles, near the river, is a palace of Constantine the Great, now turned There is very little of colour in the cathedral of Arles--only nine great Arles was at one time a city of churches, but the hurricane of the As already said, Arles was formerly surrounded by water, river on one side, Arles to Salon--First sight of Les Baux--The churches of S. Trets is an odd little place, surrounded by its ancient walls and towers, town, built on a hill round a castle in ruins and a church very much 8936 Half-an-hour from Meaux by railway is the pretty little town of La in order to visit these little towns; alike scenery and people are Half-an-hour''s railway journey brings me to the quaint little town of friendly little town, long since settled in Paris, opened all hearts to eminently a Protestant town, shops are open all day long on Sundays, both house and garden, whereas, even in a little town like Montbéliard, mountains, valleys, here called "combes"--delicious little emerald and beauty of the scenery reach their culminating point at St. Hippolyte, a pretty little town with picturesque church, superbly of provincial France, which is also, like the charming little library of makes travelling in out of the way places in Franche-Comté so fruitful little town of Nans, and the source of the River Lison, a two hours'' little town few English travellers have even heard of, I had been In one of the little mountain towns, the curé 8998 _Théâtre des Arts et de la République_, or Grand French opera--Old New year''s day still celebrated in Paris on the 1st of January They shall assemble four times a year as the body of the Institute, appears, that, though the useful arts, in general, cannot at present arts, will case Paris of a great number of the pictures, statues, &c. present; but every person in Paris, who receives a stranger under his half-price is taken at any theatre in Paris; but in different parts At the present day, the number of these women in Paris is computed at down to the present time, particularly the new French Encyclopædia, The French opera having been long considered as the grand national order that, being thus placed in full view, and presented to public engravers, from the origin of the French nation to the present day, established in Paris a great number of 9480 country to Remiremont, to Plombières, to Wesserling, to Colmar, to St. Dié, whilst these places in turn make very good centres for excursions. the fragrant fir-woods leads to a curious relic of ancient time--a little of late years have appeared devoted to French travel, holiday tourists of forty years a German minister lately averred that French Alsatians provinces were ceded to France, and a few years later, in times of peace, nous_!" I can fancy how Doré would enjoy the family life of our little Rothau is a very prosperous little town, with large factories, handsome opened within the last few years, containing some fine modern French Half-way between Nîmes and Le Vigan lies the little town of Sauve, at France thoroughly French, yet within a few hours of a country strikingly him, pretending to work too, his little son of five years. education of the poor little lads is examined once a year by a school