. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. the others without hesitation. They were not very deep, whichwas lucky, as Franki cannot swim. The boat is moored for the night at Pontailler, and we havejust explored the place. Considering that it is an ancient city,and that there was a royal palace there so far back as the timeof Charles the Bald, its strikes us chiefly as being extremelymodern in appearance. The reason for this is historical. Theentire town was destroyed by General Mercey, whose nameresembles mercy more than his actions. The place had offer
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. the others without hesitation. They were not very deep, whichwas lucky, as Franki cannot swim. The boat is moored for the night at Pontailler, and we havejust explored the place. Considering that it is an ancient city,and that there was a royal palace there so far back as the timeof Charles the Bald, its strikes us chiefly as being extremelymodern in appearance. The reason for this is historical. Theentire town was destroyed by General Mercey, whose nameresembles mercy more than his actions. The place had offered. A Summer Voyage. 141 a gallant resistance which put him out of temper, so he gaveit up to fire and sword on the 28th of August, 1636. The yearfollowing a sort of public inventory was made from which itappears that only five houses had escaped from the conflagration,whilst no more than twenty-two inhabitants had been left aliveafter the massacre. Part of the town is now situated between the present bedof the Saone, and another bed of the same river which makesa long and very pretty lake shaded with some of the mostbeautiful and graceful groups of trees that I ever beheld,and bordered by gardens with pleasant-looking residences inthem. The lawns here are as pretty as those on the banksof the Thames, and the gardens seem to be particularly wellkept. The church is on the space of land between the twowaters. It is a modern renaissance edifice, very plain andsimple outside, but tastefully decorated in the interior afterthe present Parisian fashion. There is a bridge over the false river whi
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