pre-alpine

Updated: February 20, 2026

We followed in the wake, H. trembling lest the cord should break, and we experience a pre-Alpine avalanche. At length, however, we breathed more freely in rooms au quatrieme of Hotel de l'Univers. After dinner we drove to the cathedral. It was St. John's eve.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2