Paris herself again in 1878-9 . 290 PARIS HERSELF COACHMAN OF THE POMPES FUXEBRES. ^f the deceased be a secularly-minded one, the body is not takento church at all, but goes right away to the cemetery. Moreoverthe friends of the departed not specially invited to attend asjaourners make it a point of honour to follow the hearse on foot tothe cemetery. For example, I passed on Monday one very grand bier, drawn by four horses, was heaped high with wreaths of THE GREAT HAM FAIR. 291 camellias, white geraniums, and the exquisite pale violets of theseason. The surname of the depa
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . 290 PARIS HERSELF COACHMAN OF THE POMPES FUXEBRES. ^f the deceased be a secularly-minded one, the body is not takento church at all, but goes right away to the cemetery. Moreoverthe friends of the departed not specially invited to attend asjaourners make it a point of honour to follow the hearse on foot tothe cemetery. For example, I passed on Monday one very grand bier, drawn by four horses, was heaped high with wreaths of THE GREAT HAM FAIR. 291 camellias, white geraniums, and the exquisite pale violets of theseason. The surname of the departed began, apparently, with aP, since scrolls and badges of black velvet, worked in silver withthe initial P, appeared on the bier, on the horsecloths, and onthe hammercloths of the mourning-coaches, fifteen in least a score of private carriages followed. The attendance onfoot was small. The next funeral was that, seemingly, of a FrenchProtestant, as an ecclesiastic, in the simple, austere, but dignifiedhabit of a Calvinist pastor, walked, op
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