. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTfcR VI. QUIMPER. UIMPER, although it is the centreof the real Brittany, is distinctly dif-ferent from it. The elm-tree prome-nade that follows the windingriver, which has quays and boats,renders the town very pretty andthe big Hdtel de la Prefecture, which alone coversthe little western delta, gives it a thoroughly admin-istrative and French appearance. You are awarethat you are in the chef-lieu of a department, a factbrought home to you by the latters division inarrondissements
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . CHAPTfcR VI. QUIMPER. UIMPER, although it is the centreof the real Brittany, is distinctly dif-ferent from it. The elm-tree prome-nade that follows the windingriver, which has quays and boats,renders the town very pretty andthe big Hdtel de la Prefecture, which alone coversthe little western delta, gives it a thoroughly admin-istrative and French appearance. You are awarethat you are in the chef-lieu of a department, a factbrought home to you by the latters division inarrondissements, with their large, medium, and smallparishes, its committee of primary instruction, its sav-ipgf banks, its town council and other modern inven-tiops, which rob the cities of local colour, dear to theheart of the innocent tourist. With all due deference to the people who pro-nounce the name of Quimper-Corentin as the syno-nyme of all that is ridiculous and provincial, it is amost delightful place, and well worth other morerespected ones. You will not, it is true, find thecharms and riotous wealth of colou
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