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In a letter to his uncle he relates that, before going to Holland, he had embarked in a vessel for Bordeaux, that the ship was driven by a storm into Newcastle-upon-Tyne, that he was there seized on suspicion of being engaged with the rebels, and thrown into prison; that the vessel, meanwhile proceeding on her voyage, was wrecked at the mouth of the Garonne, where all the crew perished; and that, at the end of a fortnight, being liberated, he set sail in a vessel bound for Holland, and in nine days arrived safely at Rotterdam.
They are, for the first time in France, stimulated partly by the alarming adulteration of French wines, rigorously applying and enforcing the pure-food laws. As a consequence, there is a palpable and decided improvement of the vintage of the Garonne and the Champagne country. One may get a good glass of wine now without impoverishing himself.
This rock, wholly covered with the works of the city, stands looking at the Pyrenees and holding the only level valley between the Mediterranean and the Garonne, and even if one had read nothing concerning it one would understand why it has filled all the legends of the return of armies from Spain, why Victor Hugo could not rest from the memory of it, and why it is so strongly woven in with the story of Charlemagne.
The Garonne had almost mounted to the roofs of the houses, and the place continues to present a blighted, frightened look. Two or three persons with whom I had some conversation spoke of that time as a memory of horror. I have not done with my Italian comparisons; I shall never have done with them.
We two, who have been partners in so much military glory, should be friendly to each other publicly." The same letter contained also an item of domestic information. It was alluding to this last that General Feraud answered from a little village on the banks of the Garonne: "If one of your boy's names had been Napoleon, or Joseph, or even Joachim, I could congratulate you with a better heart.
The only other ecclesiastical impression I gathered at Toulouse came to me in the church of La Daurade, of which the front, on the quay by the Garonne, was closed with scaffoldings; so that one entered it from behind, where it is completely masked by houses, through a door which has at first no traceable connection with it.
It is stated that this heroine, armed from head to foot, defended Bordeaux against the adherents of Napoleon, and that she fought hand to hand with Clausel, and beat him down with an enormous stone. Deserted by her followers, she at last, like Turnus, plunged, armed as she was, into the Garonne, and swam to an English ship which lay off the coast.
Reach published a fuller account of his journeys in a volume entitled 'Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone. In passing through the South of France, Mr. Reach stopped at Agen.
General delight at the end of the war March to Bordeaux Kind reception of the troops by the inhabitants of the country on the way Particular good fortune of Lawrence Great attention on the part of his host A magnificent dinner Singular effects of a campaign on Lawrence's taste for feather-beds He tells of moving accidents, &c., &c., and excites the pity of his hostess Two men sentenced to be flogged, but begged off by the inhabitants of the town Arrival at Bordeaux Encampment on the Garonne Fraternizing of the natives and the troops Good times in camp Sudden influx of skulkers, who, however, receive but as poor a welcome as they deserve.
"River Garonne, At Anchor in Steamboat, 23rd Sept., 1830. "We sailed finely on Saturday from Dublin, while sheltered by the Irish coast; but in the evening we tasted the Atlantic with a south-wester, which proved a bitter dose. For nearly fifty hours we tossed, with very slow progress, until all our bones were bruised, etc., etc.... I have never seen anything like the sea on the French coast.
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