Along France's river of romance: . o, in the eighteenthcentury, gave his name to a celebrated congregation ofBenedictines, who possessed a number of importanthouses, of which this was one of the chief. Of theancient abbey, besides the walls seen from the Loire,there remains a building of the seventeenth centurj-, andabove it, half-way up the hill, a twelfth-century chajDclbuilt on the actual foundations of the sanctuary whereSt. Maur died and was buried. The abbey was sup-pressed by the Revolutionaries, but restored by theBenedictines in 1890. They v/ere again sent packing byM. Combes in 1903.
Along France's river of romance: . o, in the eighteenthcentury, gave his name to a celebrated congregation ofBenedictines, who possessed a number of importanthouses, of which this was one of the chief. Of theancient abbey, besides the walls seen from the Loire,there remains a building of the seventeenth centurj-, andabove it, half-way up the hill, a twelfth-century chajDclbuilt on the actual foundations of the sanctuary whereSt. Maur died and was buried. The abbey was sup-pressed by the Revolutionaries, but restored by theBenedictines in 1890. They v/ere again sent packing byM. Combes in 1903. The village is joined by a ferryto La Menitr^, a little centre for the rich agricultural SAUMUR TO ANGERS 275 industry of a district which is one of the most fertileand highly cultivated in France. It recalls memories—like so many villages in Anjou—of the good King Ren6,king of half a dozen places and yet without a kingdom,whose amiable personality has left such an indeliblemark on the many places where he lived or stayed. 4%. The Loire at Gennes Below St. Maur and La Menitre we come to the villageof St. Remy-la-Varenne, with a restored church and theremains of a priory which contains an elaborately carvedand painted chinmey-piece. The road here crosses theriver by a long suspension bridge to St. Mathurin, whichhas a modern church, boasting fine stalls and carvedwoodwork, said to have come from the abbey of i7(> TllK Tho T;oiro bolow licnnos iHHonios for a >vhilo nnrnnvor,doopor. mul nuM\^ po>vovf\il. IhMoi\^ spro:uiin_u itsolf npvinainoui:; tho islands of St. KiMny-la-Varomu\ Soon afterS(. KcMny Iho hills abruptly loavo tho rivor-bank, and thestroain runs botwwMi low-lyiiii; borders in llu iwiildlo Ilf apositiNo lab)rii\th of islands ami islols bcfin\^ passin^fnndor tho arohos of los l\M\ts-dc-l\\ At St. ^Mathnrin, lato in tht^ t^A onini^-. I gv^t inti>tho train, tiroil vnil. anil loft tho Loiro. lo rattlothront^h an odd ilistriol, all soarrod
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