The Christmas kalends of Provence and some other . ung, and there was a mighty clappingof hands. And then the gang-plank was setashore, and instantly beside it — standingin the glare of a great lantern—we saw ourCapoulie, the head of all the Felibrige, FelixGras, waiting for us, his subjects and hisbrethren, with outstretched hands. Fromhim came also, a little later, our official wel-come : when we all were assembled for a ponchdhonneur at the Hotel du Louvre — in thegreat vaulted chamber that once served theTemplars as a refectory, and that has beenthe banquet-hall of the Felibrige ever since
The Christmas kalends of Provence and some other . ung, and there was a mighty clappingof hands. And then the gang-plank was setashore, and instantly beside it — standingin the glare of a great lantern—we saw ourCapoulie, the head of all the Felibrige, FelixGras, waiting for us, his subjects and hisbrethren, with outstretched hands. Fromhim came also, a little later, our official wel-come : when we all were assembled for a ponchdhonneur at the Hotel du Louvre — in thegreat vaulted chamber that once served theTemplars as a refectory, and that has beenthe banquet-hall of the Felibrige ever sincethis later and not less honorable Order wasfounded, almost forty years ago. Not until those formalities were endedcould we of America get away to receive thepersonal welcome to which through all thatday we had been looking forward with awarm eagerness — yet also sorrowing: be-cause we knew that among the welcomingvoices there would be a silence, and that aface would be missing from among those weloved. Roumanille was dead; and in meet-204. n TeastDay on tDe Kb^ne ing again in Avignon those who had beenclosest and dearest to him, and who to uswere close and dear, there was heartachewith our joy. Saint-Remy-de-Provence,August, 1894. at Orange tbe i^omeaie francaiseat Orattde AFTER a lapse of nearly fifteen centuries,ii. the Roman theatre at Orange — foundedin the time of Marcus Aurelius and abandoned,two hundred years later, when the Northernbarbarians overran the land—seems destinedto arise reanimate from its ruins and to be thescene of periodic performances by the ComedieFrangaise: the first dramatic company ofEurope playing on the noblest stage in theworld. During the past five-and-twenty yearsvarious attempts have been made to compassthis happy end. Now—as the result of therepresentations of (Edipus and Antigoneat Orange, under government patronage andby the leading actors of the National Theatre—these spasmodic efforts have crystallizedinto a steadfast endeav
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