. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Cendrecourt from the Fields. water in public and private fountains. The Amance, a tributaryof the Saone, passes by Jussey. In the times of the Spanishdomination (Franche Comte was a possession of Spain in thesixteenth century) the place was well fortified with a strongcastle and ramparts, but these have entirely disappeared. The banker we were to have seen, and whom I did notknow personally, had driven to his garden near the Saone andwe had met him on the road without being aware of it. Thesame thing happened o
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Cendrecourt from the Fields. water in public and private fountains. The Amance, a tributaryof the Saone, passes by Jussey. In the times of the Spanishdomination (Franche Comte was a possession of Spain in thesixteenth century) the place was well fortified with a strongcastle and ramparts, but these have entirely disappeared. The banker we were to have seen, and whom I did notknow personally, had driven to his garden near the Saone andwe had met him on the road without being aware of it. Thesame thing happened on our return, so we missed each other a A Summer Voyage. 67 second time. On arriving at the Boiissemroum I learned that anartist who lived part of the year at Corre (M. Dagnan-Bouveret)had sent a messenger on horseback after us to invite us to hisstudio on the banks of the Saone below Ormoy, but we are ratherpressed for time on account of our slow locomotion, and wecannot well go back, even for a few miles. During our visit to Jussey, Mr. Pennell made sketches in the. mm i Hw if a i % > A Barn at Cendrecourt. village of Cendrecourt on the opposite bank of the Saone, andhe missed Jussey, but of the two Cendrecourt is the morepicturesque, being especially remarkable for its fine delighted Mr. Pennell, and he was also greatly pleasedwith the remarkable unity of character in Cendrecourt. Thepeople there were very civil to him, inviting him to take shelterin their houses during the rain. F 2 68 The Saoiic. On pursuing our way, we had exactly the kind of weatherthat suits Zoulou and the Boussemroum. The water was with-out a ripple, and even the upper air was perfectly still. To theeast, a range of cumuli rose like Alps of a warm golden white,and there was a fine terrestrial distance in that direction. The joiner at Corre has established a quarter-deck for me onthe Boussemroum, in front of the donkeys house. This isextremely convenient as we can all three sit upon this
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