Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

Village _fêtes_--The first of May--The religious festivals--The _Fête Dieu_--Appearance of the streets--The altars erected in them--Procession from the church--Country fairs--Th...

Few persons well acquainted with France can have failed to observe how fond the lower orders, indeed all classes, are of giving high-sounding names to their children; and it is...

Shooting wolves in the summer--The most approved baits to attract them--Fatal error--Hut-shooting--Silent joviality--The approach of the wolves--The first volley--The retreat--T...

Summer months in the Forest--_Mare_ No. 3--Description of it--The Woodcock fly--The Banker has a day's sport--Arrives at the _Mare_--Difficult to please in his choice of a hut--...

In the last and preceding chapters, the imaginative and romantic have predominated almost to the entire exclusion of any description of the wild sports of Le Morvan, and I fear...

_Mare_ No. 2.--Description of it--Not sought after by the sportsman--The sick banker--The doctor's prescription--The patient's disgust at it--Is at length obliged to yield--Leav...

Fishing in Le Morvan--The naturalists--The _Gour_ of Akin--The English lady--The mountain streams--Château de Chatelux--Sermiselle--New mode of killing pike--Pierre Pertuis--The...

The _Mares_--Manner in which they are formed in the depths of the forest--_Mare_ No. 1.--Description of it--The appearance of the spot--Mode of constructing the hunting-lodge--A...

The wolf--His aspect and extreme ferocity--His cunning in hunting his prey--His unsocial nature--Antiquity of the race--Where found, and their varieties--Annihilated in England...

The _Curé_ of the Mountain--Toby Gold Button--Hospitality--The _Curé's_ pig--His hard fate and reflections--The _Curé_ of the plain--His worth and influence--The agent of the Go...

Wolf-hunting, an expensive amusement--The _Traquenard_--Mode of setting this trap--A night in the forest with Navarre--The young lover--Dreadful accident that befell him--His co...

The extraordinary personage in whose presence I so suddenly found myself was the celebrated Père Séguin, who, tired with his morning's sport, was taking his noontide meal; that...

Appearance of the _Mare_ in the morning--Forest etiquette--Mode of obtaining possession of the best _Mare_--Every subterfuge fair--The jocose sportsman--The quarrel--Reveries in...

To locomote is absolutely necessary to every Englishman; in his heart is profoundly rooted a passion for long journeys; each and all of them, old and young, healthy and sickly,...

Passage of the woodcock in November--Their laziness--Night travelling--Mode of snaring them at night--Numbers taken in this way--This sport adapted rather for the poacher--The _...

Le Morvan, anciently Morvennium, or Pagus Morvinus, as Cæsar calls it in his Commentaries, comprises, as we have before remarked, a portion of the departments of the Nièvre and...

Castle of Bazoche--Maréchal de Vauban--Relics of the old Marshal--Memorials of Philipsburg--Hôtel de Bazarne--Madame de Pompadour's maître d'hôtel--Proof of the _curés'_ grief--...

The _battues_ of May and December--The gathering of sportsmen--Distribution in the forest--The _charivari_--The fatal rush--Excitement of the moment--The volley--The day's trium...

Bird's-eye view of the forests--The student's visit to his uncle in the country--Sallies forth in the early morning--Meets a cuckoo--Follows him--The cuckoo too much for him--Gi...

However dangerous the forests of Le Morvan may be, and certainly are, to the citizen of Paris, whose knowledge of wood-craft, whatever may have been his delightful visions of fo...

Le Morvan, independently of its hunting and fishing, its lovely climate and fine wines, pretty girls and jolly _curés_, possesses a more important class of beauties and perfecti...

In feudal times--indeed, even so late as the last century--the district was a perfect nest of cut-throats, where no one could venture in safety for any honest purpose; without r...

Village _fêtes_--The first of May--The religious festivals--The _Fête Dieu_--Appearance of the streets--The altars erected in them--Procession from the church--Country fairs--Th...

Summer months in the Forest--_Mare_ No. 3.--Description of it--The Woodcock fly--The Banker has a day's sport--Arrives at the _Mare_--Difficult to please in his choice of a hut-...

The wolf--His aspect and extreme ferocity--His cunning in hunting his prey--His unsocial nature--Antiquity of the race--Where found, and their varieties--Annihilated in England...

Bird's-eye view of the forests--The student's visit to his uncle in the country--Sallies forth in the early morning--Meets a cuckoo--Follows him--The cuckoo too much for him--Gi...

Shooting wolves in the summer--The most approved baits to attract them--Fatal error--Hut-shooting--Silent joviality--The approach of the wolves--The first volley--The retreat--T...

Fishing in Le Morvan--The naturalist--The _Gour_ of Akin--The English lady--The mountain streams--Château de Chatelux--Sermiselle--New mode of killing pike--Pierre Pertuis--The...

Passage of the woodcock in November--Laziness of that bird--Night travelling--Mode of snaring them at night--Numbers taken in this way--This sport adapted rather for the poacher...

The _Mares_--Manner in which they are formed in the depths of the forest--_Mare_ No. 1.--Description of it--The appearance of the spot--Mode of constructing the hunting-lodge--A...

_Mare_ No. 2.--Description of it--Not sought after by the sportsman--The sick banker--The doctor's prescription--The patient's disgust at it--Is at length obliged to yield--Leav...

Appearance of the _Mare_ in the morning--Forest etiquette--Mode of obtaining possession of the best _Mare_--Every subterfuge fair--The jocose sportsman--The quarrel--Reveries in...

The _battues_ of May and December--The gathering of sportsmen--Preparations in the forest--The _charivari_--The fatal rush--Excitement of the moment--The volley--The day's trium...

Wolf-hunting, an expensive amusement--The _Traquenard_--Mode of setting this trap--A night in the forest with Navarre--The young lover--Dreadful accident that befell him--His co...

Castle of Bazoche--Maréchal de Vauban--Relics of the old Marshal--Memorials of Philipsburg--Hôtel de Bazarne--Madame de Pompadour's maître d'hôtel--Proof of the _curés'_ grief--...

The _Curé_ of the Mountain--Toby Gold Button--Hospitality--The _Curé's_ pig--His hard fate and reflections--The _Curé_ of the plain--His worth and influence--The agent of the Go...