. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. Marie de Ilncarnation the St. Theresa of the New Chapel contains many very valuable paintings, the works of the mostnoted of the chief continental schools. But perhaps its chief attrac-tion, above even the ecclesiastical relics enshrined here, is the skull ofMontcalm, whose remains were interred within the precincts of the c
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. Marie de Ilncarnation the St. Theresa of the New Chapel contains many very valuable paintings, the works of the mostnoted of the chief continental schools. But perhaps its chief attrac-tion, above even the ecclesiastical relics enshrined here, is the skull ofMontcalm, whose remains were interred within the precincts of the conventin a hollow .said to have been made during the siege of the city by thebursting of a shell. Another institution highly prized by Quebecers is the Hotel-Dieu, A COUNTRY KOAD. 62 fouiuled ill 1639 bya niece of CardinalRichelieu. Duringthe seventeenth cen-tury it played an im-portant, sometimes atragic, part in the re-ligious life of theFrench colony. At-tached to the conventand hospital is thechapel, which con-tains the bones ofLalleinant and theskull of Jean de Bre-beuf, the Ajax ofthe Jesuit of Mr. Park-mans narratives, re-counting the doingsof the Jesuits inNorth America, willbe interested in seeingthese martjT-relics. ^. THE , IN H.\BIT.\NT IIOMK.
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