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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— Near the clock of Saint Maurille, says the learnedinquirer into the antiquities of Anjou, there is a littletower in the form of a pulpit; and from this tower theGospel was announced by the monks to the heatheninhabitants of Chalonnes. So long as the orators con-fined themselves to Christian morality, and the dogmasof the faith, the audience listened with great docility;but the moment a word was said about tithes they alldispersed. This continued so often, that at last thepreachers, wearied of throwing away their eloquence,admitted the Chalonnais into the body of the church,exempting them for ever from the payment of eccle-siastical tribute, but stamping them, by way of a punish-ment, with the name of unbelievers Following the course of the Loire, Montjan, on theleft bank, is the next place worthy of observation; butof this the beautiful view annexed will convey a betteridea than any description of ours. The object, however,is still more remarkable in nature than in the engraving,
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THE UNKNOWN. 125 since it rises in that imposing manner from a dead level.There is also a fishing hamlet at the base concealed bythe trees, which, contrasting with the magnificent ruinsabove, adds to their effect. The Marshal Rene of Mont-jan, who died in the sixteenth century, and whose tombwas seen in the fine sepulchral chapel till the revolution,when the whole building was destroyed by fire, was thelast of his name. He was so proud a man, that whilein the office of viceroy in Piemont, as Brantome tells us,he conducted his business by means of ambassadors,wishing to counterfeit the state of a king — a thingwhich Francis I. found very foolish. From Montjan we crossed the Loire for the purposeof visiting Chantoce, the village spire of which is allthat is visible from the river. The village itself is agroup of small neat houses flanking the high way, andremarkable, notwithstanding their situation in a greatthoroughfare, for an air of simplicity and seclusion.Near the houses there is

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