Identifier: francefromseatos00riggrich (find matches)
Title: France from sea to sea
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Riggs, Arthur Stanley
Subjects: France -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Isere plunging madly past;the endless series of superimposed snow mountains.Think not of hotel or dinner. Take an open carriageand get right over to the river. At first, the moun-tains swim in a glorious hehotrope haze, and thetown is ghostly and cold and gray in the midstof their splendor. The sun drops behind a shelteringpeak; the heliotrope sky flames, quivers, fades; thevery air turns green, a curious, eery green; the dis-tant mountains emerge icy black, the nearer andlower ones change into huge, translucent lumps ofjade, and the river to ink; vast, dull-green shadowscreep slowly down to grip the city with chill fingersthat choke out of it the last waning spark of day. The marvel is over. Not quite. Somewhere,faintly, a silvery bell begins to sing, wee lights gemthe edges of the flood and twinkle out along bridgeand avenue; it is night in Grenoble. Still in a dream,you turn away, wishing for the tongue of a poet (lOO) * > • • ■ * 3* > « • • » » «>a» (a t,*
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GRENOBLE to phrase the glory you have seen as all its majestyand weirdness deserve. Not even the smells and lightsand champings of the hotel dining-room can quiterob you of the ecstasy you have inspired from themiracle. Eventually you have to come down to earthagain. Yet even then Grenobk does nothing to shat-ter your hopes. Genius itself must have chosenthe site, and not all mans vile arts could spoil it. Grenoble is a city of nearly seventy thousand popu-lation, and formerly the capital of Dauphine. Whenthat province was added to the crown possessions, in1349, the heir to the throne of France took his titleof Dauphin from it, while the lands of the provincebecame his princely appanage. Where the Dauphins palace used to stand is thehandsome fifteenth century Palace of Justice, facingthe Place St. Andre, with the old chapel, now thechurch of St. Andre, diagonally opposite. It is adisgrace to Grenoble that the church should be dis-figured outside by having big posters advertisingvariou

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