. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. mindand body. When I reached Lyons, he afterwards wroteto de Hoyssone, I had no hope of restoration to healthami even despaired of my life. Orat. dtur. p. 1 i6. CHAPTER IX. Lyons. Cest nn grand cas voir le Mont Pelion, Ou davoir veu les mines de Troye :Mais qui ne voit la ville de Lyon, Aucun plaisir a ses yeux il noctroye. Clement Marot. N ancient city
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. mindand body. When I reached Lyons, he afterwards wroteto de Hoyssone, I had no hope of restoration to healthami even despaired of my life. Orat. dtur. p. 1 i6. CHAPTER IX. Lyons. Cest nn grand cas voir le Mont Pelion, Ou davoir veu les mines de Troye :Mais qui ne voit la ville de Lyon, Aucun plaisir a ses yeux il noctroye. Clement Marot. N ancient city knownby the name ofLugdunum formerlyreared its head in alofty situation, which,after it had beenburnt down, was re-built by Plancus,then in command ofthe Roman armies,at the foot of themountain looking to-wards the north. Through its centre the Saone rolls itssluggish waters, and on one side it is girded by the Rhone ;then each of the two streams flowing with a gentle currentreceives the other into its bosom. Rich, populous, andadorned with splendid buildings, it opens its markets aswell to strangers as to its own citizens. Such is the description which in one of his poems Doletgives us of the city which was henceforth to be his ETIENNE DO LET. i6l and which during a considerable part of the sixteenth cen-tury may fairly be considered the intellectual capital ofFrance- It recalled Italy not only in its climate, butin its literary and artistic tastes, and in the intellectualfreedom which (compared with the rest of France) it en-joyed. In civilisation, as well as in commerce, it was moreItalian than Irench. Upwards of a century earlier wc findthe foundations laid of that colony of noble and learnedFlorentine merchants, some brought by p>olitical, others bycommercial emergencies, which towards the end of thesixteenth century numbered upwards of fifty-nine Pazzi and the Gondi had settled at Lyons in thefifteenth century, and had shown to the French that inth
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