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Tournus—Greuze’s grave—Mâcon—The walking Wedding—Retirement of
a Count of Mâcon, with thirty Knights, to the Abbey of
Cluny—Dealings of his Successor with evil spirits—His exit from
Earth in the Car of a black Visitor—His son turning Monk through
fear—The County sold by his Daughter Alice to France—Bloodless
occupation of Mâcon by the Huguenots—Mâcon retaken through
bribery by the Marshal of Tavannes—Madame de Tavannes’ mode of
increasing her Revenues—Sauteries de Mâcon—Farce of St.
Poinct—Assassination of Huguenot Prisoners—Sang froid of
Catholic Dames—A Russian noble—Villefranche—Privilege granted
to its married men—Descent into Lyons—Monastère des deux Amans,
supposed Herod and Herodias—Fortress of Pierre Encise—The
Prison of Cinq Mars—Fort commanding the Croix Rousse—Homage
paid to the wooden Statue of 1550—Hôtel de l’Europe—View of
Fourvières—Its Church escaping violation throughout the
Revolution—The Antiquaille on the site of the Palace where
Germanicus was born—Traces of fire in Nero’s time—Recollections
of Princess Mary of Württemberg—Her love of Art to the
last—Nourrit’s Funeral—A Racer’s determination to trot—Going
to races—Mistaken for a Candidate—Perrache—Horses, riders, and
accoutrements—Triumph of the King’s Fête—A Boat upset—The
Tower of the fair German—Croix Rousse—Wretchedness of the
Operatives—Causes of Insurrection in 1831—The most ancient
Monastery in Gaul—Church of Aisnay