Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN AND THE WAR IN LA VENDEE. the kingdom, adjoining the Atlantic ocean on one side, and theLoire on another. The interior of this district, which we havesketched in the accompanying map, was called the BocagCj orthicket, and the strip on the sea-coast was styled the Marais, ormarsh. The Bocage, plenteously covered with hedgerows andbrushwood, formed a pretty rural scene, enriched with farm-houses, villages, churches, and old-fashioned chateaux, or resi-dences of landed gentry. At the period to which we allude, the populat
Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN AND THE WAR IN LA VENDEE. the kingdom, adjoining the Atlantic ocean on one side, and theLoire on another. The interior of this district, which we havesketched in the accompanying map, was called the BocagCj orthicket, and the strip on the sea-coast was styled the Marais, ormarsh. The Bocage, plenteously covered with hedgerows andbrushwood, formed a pretty rural scene, enriched with farm-houses, villages, churches, and old-fashioned chateaux, or resi-dences of landed gentry. At the period to which we allude, the population of La Vendeeconsisted in a great measure of small farmers, a prosperous andcontented race, living under a body of kind landlords. Accordingto all accounts, the relation between the landlord and his tenantswas all that philanthropists could now desire. Nowhere hadthe aristocratic principle shone with so beneficent a lustre. Theproprietors, most of whom belonged to the ranks of the nobility,were constantly meeting, chatting, and laughing with theirten
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