Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-09-27

In no other way can chickens be so de-
lioiously cooked as before an open fire.
While we ate our horses were led up
the street narrow streets before us,
their hoofs echoing ON the stone pave
ment and through the inner gate, the
Porte du Roi, In which the old port
Quilts still hangs, to their stables up
the single narrow winding street of old
houses that form the town within the
walls. Each guest was furnished with
a Chinese lantern and by their light We
hunted our way around ramparts and
up worn stairs cut in the rock to our
rooms. The various hotels belonging
to Poulard are perched wherever bit
OF room could he found on the side of
the mount.
From each room projects balcony
and 1t was novel sight to see parties
with their gay lanterns vending their
way around the ramparts or sitting
singing on the battlements below,
their songs echoed from the balconies
overhead. One almost feared to fall off
into the sea in the night as we seemed
to hang over it; from my balcony
could look down the chimney Of the
house in front, or rather beneath me.
Our breakfast of coffee and rolls was
served on a terrace where We sat under
vine and f1gtree. At luncheon We had
delicious omelette, for which Madame
Poulard is also famed, and which We
ate in large room, whose walls are
lined with sketches by admiring al fists
who have been her guests, and among
whose names were those famous in
Europe and America. We made the
round of the buildings which have great
architectural and historic interests,
starting on the magnificent wall which
is ornamented with manifestations and
swells here and there into bastions,
towers and guaidhouses. 1t is of great
height, and in some placts where the
rock falls sheer below it was almost
appalling to look over the ramparts; a
little forest clings TO the rocks on one
side. The Merveille contains some of
the finest Gothic rooms in the world,
built one on TOP Of the other with
wonderful art. Supporting the choir
of the church is a crypt with i'm
menss pillars, IL feet ia diameter.
Above are the cloisteis with 200 pillars
of polished granite ranged in double
aroades with graceful vaults and ex.
quisite carving. In contrast with all
This beauty are hideous aud awful dens
| or caohots, SIP cies of architecture
| of which Louis XI was fond and which
are attributed to his orders. In one
of these was placed one of the cages
invented for MIN by CARDINAL Balue
and 10 it was confined a political
prisoner, Dubourg, until he went mad
These cages were made Of bars 50 clGsa
together that a hand could not PASS
between them and so low and short
that a man could neither stand erect
nor lie at length in them. Du-
bourg's cage was put in one of thtsa
dark caves in the cold and damp, and
| where it was SO dark that we mad to
grope our way. We were shown the spot
| where occurred dramatic episode IN
connection with the war between the
Huguenots and the Catholic League.
The former, under Sieur Montgomery,
| desired to seize this stronghold. IA
miserable criminal, named Goupigny,
had taken refuge with its governor
and he sought the Huguenot leader
and told him that for 200 crowns he
| would admit them into the fortress,
drawing them up by means of great
wheel and windlass used for hosting
water and provisions. Having made
his bargain he went back and revealed
| the plot to the governor. On the night
arranged, Montgomery with 200 men
climbed the rock to the foot of the wall.
Goupigny stood above at his post by
| the windlass and called down to the
Huguenots to come up, that all was
safe. They rushed for the rope, each
desiring to be the first to enter and
Goupigny drew them up. As they
reach the entrance they were drawn
quietly within and stabbed by the
garrison, who spared but one man, a
trusty soldier named Rablotiere, who
they thought might be useful to them
later on! At length, after 95 men hao
thus gone, one by one to their doom,
the Huguenots, without, wondered
that the fortress should be 80 quietly
taken and called up to Goupigny
"Are we masters Of the placer If so,
send us down the body Of a monk az
proof" So the governor slipped q
monks dress on dead Huguenot ano
flung him down. But Montgommery re-
quired further proof and knowing thai
his man, Rablotiere, could be trusted
to the death, demanded that he should
tell them il all were we'll. Then thu
governor felicitated himself on having
spared this man; he brought him tC
the wheel and promised to let him gt
free il he would call down to hit
master to come on and threatened in
slant death il he gave warning. Blu
the brave man was faithful and criet
out to the Huguenots that they wer,
betrayed. The governor, touched b,
his fidelity and fine courage, spared
his life and himself afterwards joinec
the Huguenot side. The bodies OF tn,
murdered men were buried Just outsid
the trap where they had been caugh
and their bones were found there r,
Gently when reservations we're beinl
made.
One of the great sights OF Mont st
Michael is the coming in Of the tide
when it Is out the sea lies seven mile
away and the. mount ia surrounded b,
limitless stretch of gray sand witt
tiny rivers meandering through il
Like an outlying fortress towards tn
sea is the great black rock of Tombe
laine, and beyond, along the horizon
the Chausey islands, like misty pro
cession Of sea monsters. Gradually
the water creeps around Tombelain
till 1t becomes an island and as th
! bore advances it spreade, THROWN
their films Of water along the san,
and at last washes up against tn
rock Of Mont st. Michael. Then !
wheels around, stirring up the sand
till it has covered all with a restles
, surface of water fiecked with foam. A
; the spring tides it rises 16 yards an
comes faster than a horse can gallo
] and lives are often lost in its swii
onrush, 4or in the treacherous quick
sands it leaves behind. My last VIE
from the ramparts was of silver
stretch Of water. edged along the hor