A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 - With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. - Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings by W.D. Fellowes
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Aux tendres sentiments doit seul servir d'azile.
Ces rameaux amoureux entrelassés exprès Aux Muses, aux Amours, offrent leur voile épais; Et ce cristal d'une onde pure A jamais ne doit réfléchir Que les grâces de la nature Et les images du plaisir. Close to the brink of the river stands a prodigiously large granite rock, immediately facing the waterfall called le Bassin de Diane: on it are these words: SA MASSE INDESTRVCTIBLE A FATIGVÉ LE TEMS. a quotation from Delille. [Illustration: GRANITE ROCK in the GARENNE.] The French writers, speaking of this interesting place, observe: "Comment soupçonner en effet qu'au milieu de cette _terrible Vendée_, qu'au centre de cet impénétrable et sombre Bocage, il existe un pays délicieux et fertile, couvert de mines séculaires qui rappelent tous les souvenirs historiques de notre ancienne France, comme le caractère de ses habitans en rappele les moeurs, le courage, et la loyauté". On the opposite side of the river, a little to the right, stands the ancient Château de Clisson, celebrated in the modern as well as the ancient history of Bretagne. Its lofty turrets, and decaying bastions, extend a considerable distance along the shore of the Sèvres, recalling to mind the ancient days of chivalry, when bravery, love, |
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