Days near Paris . seehim, and called her to a life of perpetual virginity, con-secrating her to the service of God, and giving her acopper cross to wear. Here, while she was yet a child,her mother is said to have been smitten with blindness,for giving her a box on the ear in a passion, but to havebeen restored by her prayers. Then St. Genevieve, hav-ing drawn water from the well of Nanterre, bathed hermothers eyes with it, upon which she saw as clearly asbefore. From this time the well is said to have preservedits miraculous powers, and 20,000 pilgrims come to itannually. Queen Anne of Austria
Days near Paris . seehim, and called her to a life of perpetual virginity, con-secrating her to the service of God, and giving her acopper cross to wear. Here, while she was yet a child,her mother is said to have been smitten with blindness,for giving her a box on the ear in a passion, but to havebeen restored by her prayers. Then St. Genevieve, hav-ing drawn water from the well of Nanterre, bathed hermothers eyes with it, upon which she saw as clearly asbefore. From this time the well is said to have preservedits miraculous powers, and 20,000 pilgrims come to itannually. Queen Anne of Austria, in despair at not be- NANTERRE 107 coming a mother, came to drink of its waters, and theresult was Louis XIV. The well is in the Garden of theFresbytery^ which can be entered through the Church ofSt. Maurice^ dating from XIII. c, but spoilt by chapel of St. Genevieve is covered with ex-votos. Amonument commemorates Charles Le Roy, horloger duroi, 1771. The Gateaux de Nanterre are celebrated, and. WELL OF ST. GENEVIEVE, NANTERRE. have an immense sale to the pilgrims. The fete of theRosiere^ when the girl who is esteemed the most virtuousin the town is led in procession, publicly eulogized, andcrowned with roses, is still observed every Whit-Mondayin this church. 13 y^. Rueil.—A tramway to the village, and to Mal-maison and Marly. (See Ch. IV.) log DAV^ NEAR PARIS \^ k. Chatou—where Soufflot built a chateau, which still exists, for Bertin, minister of Louis XV. Hither, to another chateau (now destroyed), near the Avenue de Croissy, the hated Chancellor Maupeou retired after the kings death, and the people sang under his windows— Sur la route de ChatouEn foule on sachemine,Et cest pour voir la mineDu Chancelier Maupeou Sur la rou- Sur la rou-Sur la route de Chatou. At the Revolution, Chatou belonged to the ComtedArtois, and was sold as national property. It was atChatou that Louis XIV. met the exiled Queen MaryBeatrice, on her arrival from England. There a
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