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Journal of a Tour in Europe and in the East 1844-1846 (Volume 1)

George Frederick Weston

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... PRUSSIA. By railway to A1x La Chapelle.--Crossed the frontier at Henri Chapelle; passports taken and luggage searched at Aix; riot a very strict examination. Hotel Couronne Imperiale--landlord a man of good education and obliging manners, speaks German, French and English. Chats in a very familiar way with his guests, according to the custom in Germany; table cfhote at halfpast one. Found ourselves in the land of pipes and cigars; strolled through the town in the evening--nine persons out of every ten about 'blowing a cloud' in some way or other. An old gateway and part of the walls remain; the fosse filled up and planted forms the Boulevards. July 11.--Cathedral.--Choir rather good, the rest with exception of a few portions Italianized. Charlemagne buried here in 814, his skull, arm or more properly leg bone shown among the 'smaller reliques.' Amongst these are also shown by a priest a cross of Constantine's, richly jewelled, with an enamel of the Empress Helena upon itThe girdle worn by our Saviour of leather, having Charlemagne's seal upon it; also one worn by the Virgin Mary; some of John Baptist's hair; S. Simeon's arm bone; cross worn by Charlemagne, containing a fragment of the true cross, and his hunting-horn; an elephant's tooth set with, gold and precious stones. These are all contained in vessels of gold or silver-gilt, exquisitely wrought; the designs Gothic, of extreme richness and beauty. The 'great reliques' contained in a magnificent shrine of silver-gilt, which we saw, are only shown once in seven years in the month of July. The coronation chair of Charlemagne is also here. This emperor was born here; the city was raised by him to be the second in the empire. Town Hall scarcely worth seeing. Once Gothic, but all this work carefully concea...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of a Tour in Europe and in the East 1844-1846 (Volume 1). To get started finding Journal of a Tour in Europe and in the East 1844-1846 (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1151180238

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... PRUSSIA. By railway to A1x La Chapelle.--Crossed the frontier at Henri Chapelle; passports taken and luggage searched at Aix; riot a very strict examination. Hotel Couronne Imperiale--landlord a man of good education and obliging manners, speaks German, French and English. Chats in a very familiar way with his guests, according to the custom in Germany; table cfhote at halfpast one. Found ourselves in the land of pipes and cigars; strolled through the town in the evening--nine persons out of every ten about 'blowing a cloud' in some way or other. An old gateway and part of the walls remain; the fosse filled up and planted forms the Boulevards. July 11.--Cathedral.--Choir rather good, the rest with exception of a few portions Italianized. Charlemagne buried here in 814, his skull, arm or more properly leg bone shown among the 'smaller reliques.' Amongst these are also shown by a priest a cross of Constantine's, richly jewelled, with an enamel of the Empress Helena upon itThe girdle worn by our Saviour of leather, having Charlemagne's seal upon it; also one worn by the Virgin Mary; some of John Baptist's hair; S. Simeon's arm bone; cross worn by Charlemagne, containing a fragment of the true cross, and his hunting-horn; an elephant's tooth set with, gold and precious stones. These are all contained in vessels of gold or silver-gilt, exquisitely wrought; the designs Gothic, of extreme richness and beauty. The 'great reliques' contained in a magnificent shrine of silver-gilt, which we saw, are only shown once in seven years in the month of July. The coronation chair of Charlemagne is also here. This emperor was born here; the city was raised by him to be the second in the empire. Town Hall scarcely worth seeing. Once Gothic, but all this work carefully concea...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of a Tour in Europe and in the East 1844-1846 (Volume 1). To get started finding Journal of a Tour in Europe and in the East 1844-1846 (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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