gatesi

Updated: May 22, 2025

The walk upon the rampart led me round to one of the gatesi of the town, where I found some small modern, fortifications and sundry red-legged soldiers, and, beyond the fortifications, another shady walk, a mail, as the French say, as well as a champ de manoeuvre, on which latter expanse the poor little red-legs were doing their exercise.

Henry James - A Little Tour in France