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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1834. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. THE LEFT BANK OF THE SEINE. Having completed our wanderings on the right bank of the Seine, from its embouchure to Rouen, we set out the next morning to walk back again, on the left bank, from Rouen to its embouchure. We crossed the river, traversed the fauxbourg of Saint Sever, and, having thus suddenly emerged from the middle of a crowd composed of a hundred thousand of our fellows, we found ourselves wending, solitary and museful, towards the forest of Rouvray. Often did this ancient forest resound to the halloo of the early dukes of Normandy. Under these shades, perhaps, the idea of the conquest of England was first conceived; for here William paused, in the midst of the chase, to learn from a messenger that King Edward was dead. In 1160, Henry the Second of England built a residence near the edge of the wood, where the successor of Rollo had erected palisades for an enclosure, or preserve, for game. Soon afterwards it became a leprosiere, for the reception of noble lepers; the king, as an old historian informs us, having " une inclination grandement naturelle pour les pauvres lepreux." After various fortunes, the whole building was destroyed at the commencement of the revolution, with the exception of the church, which is still extant, though greatly injured. Passing through two villages, the Petit and Grand Couronne, we arrive at a ruin, of which the origin and history are alike unknown. It is situated on one of the lofty conical hills so frequent on this bank, and which rises here in absolute isolation from the rest of the world. Some traces of ditches around; some fragments of enormous walls; a deep subterranean opening, vaulted with savage art, -- and these are all. Formless and indefinite, it baffles conjecture; but when standing among the...
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