.. Gaulois, Romains, Saxons,
Oppresseurs, opprimes, colliers, faisceaux, blasons,
Tout dort. Du vieux chateau la taciturne enceinte
Expire. Par degres j'ai vu sa gloire eteinte.
J'ai marche sur ses tours, erre dans ses fosses:
Tels qu'un songe bientot ils vont etre effaces."
And in truth, they are so effectually _effaced_, that not a single
vestige of the walls and towers can now be discovered.
Bayeux is situated in the midst of a fertile country, particularly rich
in pasturage. The Aure, which washes its walls, is a small and
insignificant streamlet, and though the city is within five miles of the
sea, yet the river is quite useless for the purposes of commerce, as not
a vessel can float in it. The present population of the town consists of
about ten thousand inhabitants, and these have little other employment
than lace-making.--Bayeux wears the appearance of decay: most of the
houses are ordinary; and, though some of them are built of stone, by far
the greater part are only of wood and plaster. In the midst, however, of
these, rises the noble cathedral; but this I shall reserve for the
subject of my next letter, concluding the present with a few remarks
upon that matchless relic, which,
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