Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy

The loitering train, that, climbing, winds among the vine-clad slopes of the Mâconnais, gave us our first glimpse of the vendangeurs gathering the last of a scanty crop. Those b...

Our strongest impression of Bourg en Bresse--apart from its associations with the Eglise de Brou--was that it brought us almost within hail of the beloved Midi. As at Mâcon, the...

It is time to turn from Cluny of the past to Cluny of the present. We have not far to go; for the town is still the abbey, and will be so yet, I hope, for many a year to come.

After two or three days among the relics of Pagan civilization, we were ready to turn our attention to Christian monuments of the town, and it was with our expectations fully ar...

Purity and simplicity having been always potent factors in the development of the spiritual life, it followed, as the night the day, that Cluny's ever-growing indulgencies and l...

In the railway station of Autun we had waited long for our bicycles to be taken out of the train. They did not appear. The porters were all busy with a cattle-truck that they we...

The first thing we did on arriving at Châlon was to mount our bicycles and cross the river to the Church of St. Marcel, all that now remains of the ancient abbey. The feature of...

Leaving my wife to run the gauntlet of the gamins of Beaune, while she sketched the starry hood and the porch of Notre Dame, we fared forth on our bicycles, towards the ancient...

After this long historical digression, it is quite time that we returned to the Salle des Gardes, where there are many good things to be seen beside the tombs of the Dukes. Not...

Of the thousand who pass through the town annually, on their way to Switzerland or the Riviera, only a small percentage, probably, know Dijon as the ancient capital of the Duchy...

Tournus is an attractive old town, lying asleep on a hill beside the Saône. Through it ran, north and south, the old Roman road of Agrippa. Its chief monument, the church of the...

Ever since developing a keen interest in the fortunes of the great Burgundian monasteries, we had decided to take the first opportunity of seeing the Valley of the Ouche, and La...

The little town of Verdun sur le Doubs has no particular attraction for the archæologist nor for the tourist, yet it is a place with which all visitors to Beaune who wish to kee...

We had expected quiet, rural times in this far-away village of St.-Léger-sous-Beuvray; but I doubt whether we shall get them. The village green in front of the Hotel du Morvan s...

To the outward eye Chalon-Sur-Saône is no more than a thriving, modern, commercial town, containing little of interest to the antiquarian; though the stir of life on the busy wh...

Leaving the Hotel St. Louis, about which I shall have more to say later on, and passing along the Rue de l'Arquebus, you emerge upon an open space, where stands a statue to a Ga...

By a curious coincidence--by a real coincidence, reader, not by design--it was on a morning of Easter-day that we rode out from Dijon to Lux--on just such an Easter morning as t...

The country, as one travels from Cluny to Paray-le Monial, is varied and interesting--so were the other passengers. At Charolles, there entered our compartment two priests, one...

Ever since we left Beaune, my wife has been endeavouring, at frequent intervals, to extract from me an unconditional promise that, one day, we will go to live there. "It would b...

When the train from Bourg had left the valley, and commenced its mountainous passage across the Jura, en route for Nantua, we felt that, historically, if not geographically, we...

[161] There is no reason to suppose that the tears were hypocritical. Such display of emotion was in the spirit of the times; and certainly no man had better cause than its auth...

Unknown Dijon--The City in 1364--Philip le Hardi--His jewelled Coats--The Madness of the Period--Costume of that Day--Madness of King Charles--Philip's Patronage of Art--Chartre...

Decadent Cluny--Birth of St. Robert--Abbey of Molême--The Founding of Citeaux--White Robes--Black Scapular--Stephen's Vision--The Coming of St. Bernard--His Appearance--Legend o...

Salle des Gardes--Dijon Castle--A new Post-Office--Final Struggle between Charles le Téméraire and Louis XI--Characters of both Men--Defeats and Death of Charles--Discovery of t...

Cluny and Citeaux--Cluny still the Abbey--The Birth of Cluny--Duke William's Anathema--Odon--Legend of the Crumbs--Legend of the Boar--Growth of Cluny--Birth of Hugues--St. Odil...

Cluny of To-day--Palace of Pope Gélase--The remaining Transept--Chapelle Bourbon--Tour du Moulin--Tour des Fromages--Gate of the Narthex--The Abbey Gate--Notable Visitors to Clu...

Christian Autun--Relics of Lazarus--Translation of the Relics--Tomb of Lazarus--Exterior of Cathedral St. Lazare--The Porch--The Interior--Romanesque and Gothic--The East End--I...

Bouilland--Abbey of Sainte Marguerite--The Legend--Vineyards of the Côte d'Or--Meursault--Rochepot--Story of Philippe Pot--Crusader's Return--His Marriage at Dijon--Tant L Vaut-...

A Suffering Cow--Temple of Janus--The Aedui--Druids--Divitiacus and Dumnorix--Vercingetorix--The Founding of Augustodunum--Pierre de Couhard--Francis I. at Couhard--The Plan of...

Abbey of St. Philibert--Oldest Clunisian Porch--Interior of St. Philibert--A Change of Author--The Record of Raoul Glaber--Raoul's Visions--Famine in Burgundy--Human Vampires--I...

A Page of Dialogue--Castle of Marigny--Legend of Tebsima--Albéric--Labussière--Albéric's Dream--Aid from Citeaux--The new Church--Modern Labussière--A magnificent Mansion--Antig...

Monkish Paray--"Une Simple Formalité"--Burgundian Manners--Clothes and the Woman--Hotel de Ville--Church of Paray--Splendid Example of Clunisian School--"Diorama-Musée"--Burgund...