Identifier: fieldsoffrancewi00ducl (find matches)
Title: The fields of France / with twenty illustrations in color
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Duclaux, Agnes Mary Frances (Robinson), 1857-1944 Macdougall, William Brown
Subjects: Peasantry
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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not that look of age, ofhistoric continuity, which are the charm of smaller places,such as Crepy and Senlis. No sign is left of the great palaceof the Merovingian kings, no relic of that stalwart fortresswhence are dated so many of the acts of Charles the Wise ;that castle of Compiegne where, says Eustache Deschamps, Tel froid y fait en yver que cest raige, built against theriver bridge— Le Chastel que se lanceDessus Aysne, lez le pont du rivaige. Bit by bit one discovers, lost in the modern prosperity ofthe place, here and there a souvenir of the more illustriouspast. Here and there, on the limits of the town, a toweredwall rises in some private garden, and we recognize a fragment 148 mS!-M.: ;^$^?;SSL\.,- ,T^s VIEUX MOULIN \ -ur shutters • - .• nf ..empts md the be.- am the ! sta,riJs the fine -king front and MIJUOM XU3IV i^ 1510, when :^ arcade on CSS . ise ; champs, lilt against the rstel que of 01 inc iii\: iiioLrious ..; of the town, a towered and we recognize a fragment ^
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THE FORESTS OF THE OlSE of the fortifications raised under Joan of Arc. Certainroads in the forest were planned and laid out by Francisthe First. Then there is the city gate, built by PhilibertDelorme in 1552, with the initials of Henry and Dianainterlaced. A few old houses still remain from the fifteenthand the sixteenth centuries, and among them that Hotel desRats where Henri IV. lived with Gabrielle dEstrees in 1591.There are one or two old churches, too much restored. Andthen, of course, there is the great uninteresting palace, the verytwin of the Palais Royal, which Gabriel built for Louis XV.,and which we remember for the sake of the two Napoleons. The charm, the attraction, of Compiegne is elsewhere.The forest here is beautiful as Fontainebleau. True, here arenone of the wild romantic deserts, the piled crags hoary withjuniper, the narrow gorges, and sudden summer vistas ofFontainebleau. The trees themselves have a differentcharacter. We find few of those great gnarled and holl

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