. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. it was afine private residence belonging to one of the important familiesof the place, a sort of palazzo. My bedroom has an old oakparquet in squares. The door opens upon a vestibule, whichis wainscoted with elegant old-fashioned taste; and anotherdoor in the same vestibule is that of my study, formerly a 1 The Arar is kept at Macon when not in use, simply because Batafi is the mostcareful and orderly man I have been able to find upon the Saone. A Summer Voyage. 275 private cabinet in the old house. Nothing in
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. it was afine private residence belonging to one of the important familiesof the place, a sort of palazzo. My bedroom has an old oakparquet in squares. The door opens upon a vestibule, whichis wainscoted with elegant old-fashioned taste; and anotherdoor in the same vestibule is that of my study, formerly a 1 The Arar is kept at Macon when not in use, simply because Batafi is the mostcareful and orderly man I have been able to find upon the Saone. A Summer Voyage. 275 private cabinet in the old house. Nothing in travelling is soagreeable to me as the occasional possession of a study, especiallya quiet little old room like this where I am now writing. Itseems like a sort of home, with my books on a shelf and aspacious table to spread my papers. There is a fine staircase in this house with some good forgedironwork, and there is also good ironwork at the back of thehouse in the narrow street. Some of the rooms are stately bothin size and decoration, with old-fashioned adornments of carving. Macon, the Hotel du Saavage. and painting and marble. One of them on the upper storeyretains much of its old magnificence, but has been divided. Itwas probably a saloon put there for the view of the good room on the second storey contains a bed and anarm-chair which have some historical interest, as they were usedby Napoleon on his return from Elba. They are still in serviceamongst the ordinary furniture of the hotel, but that theirhistorical character may be preserved care has been taken toleave them exactly as they were in 1815. The bed has four rp 0 276 The Scione. slender fluted columns supporting a light iron framework, thewhole painted a pale grey. The chair is of the same styleand colour, with faded green upholstery. It has happened to mesometimes, as to many other travellers, to be lodged in this dislike historical associations got up for the occasion, but youmay readily b
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