Personal sketches of recent authors . ERNEST RENAN. T^REGUIER is an ancient cathedral city set high-L upon a hill at the confluence of two rivers, inthe Cotes du Nord. In all Brittany there is not sobeautiful a Gothic cathedral as this of Treguier, withits lofty spire at once so delicate and so it is a green churchyard containing the tombof St. Ives, the patron saint of Brittany, and sur-rounding that are the ancient cloisters. The seaportof Treguier is not far away, on an estuary betweentwo wooded promontories. The town traffics in fishand grain, and the inhabitants are chiefly c
Personal sketches of recent authors . ERNEST RENAN. T^REGUIER is an ancient cathedral city set high-L upon a hill at the confluence of two rivers, inthe Cotes du Nord. In all Brittany there is not sobeautiful a Gothic cathedral as this of Treguier, withits lofty spire at once so delicate and so it is a green churchyard containing the tombof St. Ives, the patron saint of Brittany, and sur-rounding that are the ancient cloisters. The seaportof Treguier is not far away, on an estuary betweentwo wooded promontories. The town traffics in fishand grain, and the inhabitants are chiefly concernedwith the sea. Brittany mans the navy of Franceto a large extent, and from this very port many menhave gone forth to the service of the state. The ancestors of Ernest Renan had been amongthese sailor folk for several generations. They hadlived in a house on the hill near the cathedral, andnot down by the water with the sailors, who had notmeans enough to buy a fishing-smack. His grand-father was a true Breton, religious, melan
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