Wanderings by the Loire . s it, presents quite a magnificent aspect. In front,there is a wide street well provided with hotels ; and onthe left hand a handsome theatre, with a public pro-menade beyond, and the dome of Notre-Dame-des-Ardil-liers terminating the view. This, however, is only theground-plan of the place; for, rising still to the left,on a colossal rock which dominates the whole town,are the towers of the chateau; and beyond these, incontinual action, are many of those redoubtable giantswhich had the glory of overthrowing Don Quixote. The chateau has a bare and threatening appearan
Wanderings by the Loire . s it, presents quite a magnificent aspect. In front,there is a wide street well provided with hotels ; and onthe left hand a handsome theatre, with a public pro-menade beyond, and the dome of Notre-Dame-des-Ardil-liers terminating the view. This, however, is only theground-plan of the place; for, rising still to the left,on a colossal rock which dominates the whole town,are the towers of the chateau; and beyond these, incontinual action, are many of those redoubtable giantswhich had the glory of overthrowing Don Quixote. The chateau has a bare and threatening is not a tree in its neighbourhood; and, from itsgreat elevation, there are no other objects near to forma picture. The view from the heights is one of therichest and most extensive we ever saw. The countrylies spread before you as in a map, and appears to bea single garden—like that garden planted eastwardin Eden, with four rivers to water it, the Loire, theThouet, the Vienne, and the Authion. There is nothing. ANJOU. 113 more remarkable in the interior of the chateau than ahundred thousand muskets which it is said to contain;for it is now a military arsenal, having formerly beena royal fortress, and then a state-prison. At the opposite side of the town is the Place dArmes,an extensive area, one side of which is formed by theSchool of Cavalry, and the other by the stables, stillunfinished. The school, in which are included thebarracks, resembles a royal palace, and is one of themost magnificent buildings of the kind in are drafted to this academy of war fromregiments of the line, and after acting for a stated timeas professors, go out with the rank of captains. Thesubalterns, in like manner, rise to the rank of lieu-tenants, and are drafted into various regiments ; whilethe pupils, or common recruits, become in their turnsubalterns. There were two hundred officers thereduring our visit, and the scene presented by the PlacedArmes was very animated.
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