Identifier: wanderingsbyloir00ritc (find matches)
Title: Wanderings by the Loire
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Paris : Rittner and Goupil
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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he villages on the right bank are Negron, LaFrilliere, Vouvrai, with the chateau of Moncontourabove, and Roche-Corbon; but at length the line ofhouses appears to be uninterrupted, and to form thesuburbs of the city. Long before this, however, oureyes were fascinated by an object in the distance, risingtall and lonely in the midst of what appeared to be adead plain. This was the tower, or rather both towersof a cathedral, the gigantic size of which was probablyexaggerated by some atmospheric influence. Such astructure could not belong to the wilderness: it doubt-less arose among one of the great congregations of theabodes of men; but no other building was near, andthe trees that skirted the horizon looked like bushesbeside it. As we advanced, the towers seemed to rise, like therigging of a ship at sea, when as yet the hull is beneaththe circle. Soon the body of the edifice, appearingslowly, stood heavy and colossal before us; then somesmaller towers and spires shot up around it; and at
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• THE GARDEN OF FRANCE. 39 length a city filled the space which to our imaginationhad seemed the precincts of a solitary temple. There is no city in France which presents a moresplendid approach than Tours : more particularly whenyou enter by the right bank, crossing a bridge, whichhas been compared to our own majestic Waterloo —nothing can be grander than the effect.# The RueRoyale, a broad and elegant street, continuing the lineof the bridge, traverses the town in its whole breadth;and at the end of the vista you see the avenue of Gram-mont, the commencement of the great road to Bour-deaux, issuing as if from the trees of the ramparts. Thebridge is composed of fifteen flattened arches, eachseventy-five feet wide, and is perfectly straight. Infront, and commencing the Rue Royale, are the Hotelde Ville on the right, and the Museum on the left —two very handsome buildings, the latter only justfinished. When you have traversed this straight line, how-ever, from the river to the ra

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