. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. TOWER OF JOAN OF ARC, ROUEX. XCATtONS IA HISTORIC LANDS. fore the departure of ships and during great storms in the fishing>n, being a part of the mass for seamen, or the messe dequu The Class left £tretat for Rouen. I l Rouen ! Rouen ! it is here I must die, and here shall be my last resting-place! said Joan of Arc at the stake. Rouen was hardl) the resting-] • the heroic peasant girl, for her ashes were thrown into the Seine. But the thought ol the- stranger on coming to Rouen is Lted with it> history under the sea-kings
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. TOWER OF JOAN OF ARC, ROUEX. XCATtONS IA HISTORIC LANDS. fore the departure of ships and during great storms in the fishing>n, being a part of the mass for seamen, or the messe dequu The Class left £tretat for Rouen. I l Rouen ! Rouen ! it is here I must die, and here shall be my last resting-place! said Joan of Arc at the stake. Rouen was hardl) the resting-] • the heroic peasant girl, for her ashes were thrown into the Seine. But the thought ol the- stranger on coming to Rouen is Lted with it> history under the sea-kings of the North, the. I II K M Mil 01 KM \N - Norman dukes and the English invaders, than with the hard fati andpublic memorials of me simple shepherdess, who seems to havei ailed from her tlo< ks to change the destiny of France. entered Rouen after a series of short, zigzag jounpartly i: - and partly on foot, going leisurely from town to towi through roads that presented to view continuous landscapes ol shininjards, ripening gardens, and resplendent poppy-fields; stopping a UPPER NORMANDY. 231 Amiens, the birthplace of Peter the Hermit, meeting here and there aruin, and rinding everywhere the connecting historical links between thepresent and the past. At Amiens the Class was brought into the presence of a relic whichgreatly excited the boys wonder. This church, said their guide, taking the Class to a side chapelof the cathedral, contains a very rare relic, — a part of the head ofJohn the Baptist! Passing into the beautiful chapel the Class was shown the shrinecontaining the precious treasure, which
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