March 21, 1842: St. Denis |
Went with Mr. Laidler to St. Denis, who for economy would go by a small kind of omnibus. Carrying six persons with one horse - a very mean conveyance, which found afterward are called "pot de chambre."St. Denis a villas two leagues from Paris. The church of the same name contains the monuments of the Kings of France from the time of Clovis to the last of the Bourbons, whose ashes were sacred odiously disturbed in the revolution to efface all remembrance of them and the venerable Gothic edifice turned into a store house. The monuments have been restored and are in the subterranean parts of the church called the caveat -





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