CONTENTS
CHAPTER II. — MORET-SUR-LOING.
CHAPTER IV. — BOURRON—continued.
CHAPTER V. — BOURRON—continued.
CHAPTER IX. — LA CHARITÉ-SUR-LOIRE.
CHAPTER XI. — NEVERS AND MOULINS.
CHAPTER XII. — SOUVIGNY AND SENS.
CHAPTER XIII. — ARCIS-SUR-AUBE.
CHAPTER XIV. — ARCIS-SUR-AUBE—(continued).
CHAPTER XVI. — RHEIMS—(continued).
CHAPTER XVII. — SOULAINES AND BAR-SUR-AUBE.
CHAPTER XVIII. — ST. JEAN DE LOSNE.
CHAPTER XX. — IN GERMANISED LORRAINE.
CHAPTER XXI. — IN GERMANISED ALSACE.
I here propose to zig-zag with my readers through regions of Eastern France not described in any of my former works. The marvels of French travel, no more than the chefs-d’oeuvre of French literature, are unlimited. Short of saluting the tricolour on Mont Blanc, or of echoing the Marseillaise four hundred and odd feet underground in the cave of Padirac, I think I may fairly say that I have exhausted France as a wonder-horn. But quiet beauties and homely graces have also their seduction, just as we turn with a sense of relief from “Notre Dame de Paris” or “Le Père Goriot,” to a domestic story by Rod or Theuriet, so the sweet little valley of the Loing refreshes after the awful Pass of Gavarni, and soothing to the ear is the gentle flow of its waters after the thundering Rhône. Majestic is the panorama spread before our eyes as we pic-nic on the Puy de Dôme. More fondly still my memory clings to many a narrower perspective, the view of my beloved Dijon from its vine-c