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Heights of Fourvières—Difficult descent—Trade in relics—Our Lady
of Fourvières—Saving Lyons from Cholera—Lunatic
patients—Dungeon where the first Christian Bishop was
murdered—Roman Ruins—The Christians’ early place of
assembly—St. Irénée—A coffin—Subterranean chapels—Bones of
the Nine Thousand—The Headsman’s block, and the murmur from the
well—Bleeding to death—Marguerite Labarge—Her abode for nine
years—Her return to upper air cause of her death—Her family
rich residents in Lyons—Mode of saving the soul—Body dispensed
with—The Pope’s Bull good for ever—A friend’s arrival—Jardin
des Plantes—Riots of November, 1831—The Préfet’s mistake—Capt.
de ——.—Defence of the Arsenal with unloaded cannon—The
murdered Chef de Bataillon—His assassin’s death—The grief of
his opponents—Their usual cruelty and their wild justice—Their
eight days’ occupation of Lyons—Capt. de ——’s defence of
Arsenal—Bearer of proclamation—Danger—Saved by a former
comrade—Interview—Threats—Empty cannon effective—Invitation
to dinner—Retreat—The Hôtel de l’Europe closed against its
master by a National Guard—Three hundred killed in St.
Nizier—The Cathedral—Second Council General—Jaw of St.
John—The ivory horn of Roland—Privilege of the Seigneur of Mont
d’Or—The first Villeroy Archbishop—Refusal to accept him by the
Counts of Lyons—His text and the Dean’s reply—Lyons refuge for
the Pazzi—Their monument destroyed in anger by Marie de
Médicis—The last Prince of Dauphiné becoming prior of the
Jacobin Convention, Paris—Procession in St. Nizier—Chapel of
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Place Bellecour—Louise Labé—Clémence de Bourges—Her desertion
by her lover—His death—Her own—Rue de la Belle
Cordière—Abd-el-Kader—The fat Cantinière captive—Presented
to the Emperor of Morocco—The Emperor’s love—Her
obstinacy—Application made to the Consul—Her oaths and
blows—Her return—The Savoyard Regiment’s fidelity—Marquis of
—— and dogs—Cat massacre—Indignant landlady—Pont de la
Guillotière—Bridge at the same spot broken beneath Philip
Augustus and Richard Cœur de Lion—Leaving Lyons—Mont
Blanc—La Verpelière—Its accommodation—La Tour du Pin—A
lovely Country—An auberge—Destructive storms—Pont du
Beauvoisin—Curious landlady—Leeches en poste—A smiling
country—A wild pass—La Chartreuse—Valley des
Échelles—Grotto—Cascade of Cours—Chambéry