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Titre : Notes on Burgundy / by Charles Richard Weld ; edited by his widow
Auteur : Weld, Charles Richard (1813-1869)
Éditeur : Longmans, Green and Co. (London)
Date d'édition : 1869
Contributeur : Weld, Ann. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet : Bourgogne (France) -- Descriptions et voyages
Type : monographie imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : 1 vol. (XXVI-244 p.) ; in-8
Format : application/pdf
Droits : domaine public
Identifiant : ark:/12148/bpt6k35063p
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 8-Lk2-2481
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb316356706/description
Provenance : bnf.fr
| MEMOIR. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| INTRODUCTORY. | |
| Letter of Introduction - My Friend's House - Pleasant Surprise - My Host's Mother - Cap of Liberty - Gardens on Walls - Bravery of the Beaunois - Braying of Trumpets - Ban de la Vendange - Boiling with Vermin - Vineyards and Wine - No Happiness without Vin de Beaune - Louis IX. - Arms of Beaune - Juice of the Grape - Cellars - Morcellements - Mont Blanc - Tasting-cup - 'Pot Pourri' - Burgundians Vulpivorous - Insects Excommunicated. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| BEAUNE. | |
| Family Pictures - Cannibalism - Leprosy - Effects of Paris going to Market - Bureau de Bienfaisance - Hospital - Museum - Armour - Cathedral - Palace - Terrible Siege. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| ROCHE OF CASTLE. | |
| Volnay - St. Romain - Dungeons - Chapel - René Pot - 'Bibat et Moriatur' - Echo - Walnuts. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| AUTUN. | |
| Importance of the City under the Romans - Various Sieges - First Court of Dukes of Burgundy held here - Female Warriors - A New Kind of Wadding - Mont Beauvray - Fair - Liard - Cathedral - Roman Gates - Temple of Janus - Capitol - Amphitheatre - Singular Monument - Nicolas Rolin - Château of Montheleu - Minerals. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| LE CREUSOT. | |
| Dark Cloud - Theatrical Effect - Watt's Steam Engine - Queen Marie Antoinette's Glass Manufactory - Cannon Casting - Eugène Schneider - Secret Department - Mokta-el-Hadded - The Steam-Hammer - Manchester Goods - Low Wages - Schools - No Strikes - Few Crimes - Healthy Population. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| DIJON - LIBRAIRIES. | |
| Medicine-house of the Soul - France better supplied with Public Libraries than England - 'J'ai ma Passion' - 'Grollieri et Amicorum' - Private Museum - Three score and ten - Farewell to La Cloche. | |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| PONTIGNY. | |
| Huguenot Vandalism - St. Edmund of Canterbury - Asceticism of his Mother - Midnight Visitors - III-requited Love - Miracle - Encounter with the Devil - Relics. | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| TANLAY CHÂTEAU. | |
| Frenchmen not Lovers of Country Life - No Admittance - Tour de la Ligue - Curious Fresco - Corinthian Grape - Bridal Party. | |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| AUXERRE. | |
| Olden Times - Mine Host - The Cathedral - Comfortable Dwellings - Chapel of Our Lady - Cyclone - Images Overthrown - Tourte - Clerical Football and Dancing - Antiquity of French Towns - Le Feu sacré - The Patient Fisherman - 'Wine of the King' - Halle aux Vins. | |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| FROM AUXERRE TO AVALLON. | |
| Fossils - Vintages - The'Grapillage' - 'J'ai 50 écus' - Steam Horse - Place aux Militaires - Sanguinary Battle - Privilege of the House of Chastellux - The Church Militant - Philippe le Bon - Good Road - Limestone Caverns - Sour Grapes - Bats - Stalactites - Highlands of Burgundy. | |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| AVALLON. | |
| A Celtic City - Honey-pots - 'Saucisse' - Intervention of St. Michael - Prayer - 'Commis Voyageurs' - Voracity - An Unlucky Cook - Walled Counties - Men of Peace - 'Sa Majesté' - 'Eau sucrée' - Burning Thirst - Three Strides - Nothing to Pay - The Oldest Church in Burgundy - St. Lazare - Louis XI. - Grand Ceremony - Gloomy Interior - Stone Cross - Sacrifice. | |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| AVALLON TO MONTREAL. | |
| A Contrast - A Twenty-two Miles'Walk - Definition of a Straight Line - 'La Mère des Eaux' - Stalwart Dukes and Puny Kings - La Troquette - Storks and Snakes - Public Ovens and Washing - houses - Curious old Customs - Hunting Abbots - The Key to Burgundy - Beautiful Sculptures - A favoured Church. | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| AVALLON TO VEZELAY. | |
| Hilly Country - St. Père - Hugh of Lincoln - Ostrich Riding - A Lock of Hair - St. Bernard's Address - Le Champ des Huguenots - Inquisition - Beza - Banditti - Mist encompassing the Cathedral - Oaks and Acorns - Milk Thistle - St. Thomas à Becket's Curse - Cathedral Denuded and Deserted - Chapel - Chapter House. | |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| LE MORVAN AND VEZELAY. | |
| Geography and Natural Productions - Feelings of Aversion - Bastard of Vannes - The Ploughman - Heavy Ransom - Tragical Fate - 'Flotteurs' - 'Mares' - Druids - Blue Beard - Moonlight Nights - White-robed Ghosts - Marshall Vauban - 'Marchand de Marrons' - Great Economy - Spirit of Adventure - Cottage - Broc de Vin - A Useful Room - A Buxom Dame - A Heavy Blow - Denizens of the Forest - Drunken Wolves - Traquenard - Wolf-skin Drum - Grape-eating Fowls - Grisly Monsters - The Felons' Holiday - Boar Hunts - Squirrels and their Cages - Bolt - Serfs - Hoards of Money - A Member of the Society for the Protection of Animals. | |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| RELIGION IN BURGUNDY. | |
| English Clergy - Interesting Question - Sweet Music - 'Pas si bête que ça' - Priest and Pasteur - Scepticism - Dr. Johnson - Mariolatry - Sermons of the Thirteenth Century - Napoleon I. - La Salette - Handbills - Selling Off - A Mere Cipher. | |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC LIFE. | |
| Tabula Rasa - Jesuit Schools - Young France - Flogging - Léon de Montfort and his Masters - Imprisonment - Fighting - Over-work - 'Pépinière' - Happiness of Middle Classes - Contentment - Treatment of Girls. | |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| TRUFFLES. | |
| These Fungi Scarce and Dear - Count de Courchamps - Sauces - Becfigues - Napoleon's Instructions to a Diplomatist - Salt. | |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| FRANCHE COMTÉ. | |
| Former Boundaries of Burgundy and Franche Comté - Difference between their Inhabitants - Characteristics of the Dukes of Burgundy - Charles the Bold's Opinion of his Duchy. | |
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