The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-09-23

anyone could know of beauty and
Hight, but the following two weeks
aying taken us out into the heart of
Rance. through flowing field and
Countryside, amid palaces and cha
eaux. unrivalled in splendour, we
bealize that in Paris alone we could
bn,y begin to know a very small part
pf the beauty. the brilliancy and
charm that like a gorgeous mantle
enfolds his Sunny Land Of France"
Surely no cOuntry could be more
Typical Of it's people than is this one
DO radiant, so brilliant, so gladstone
Aad light of heart-with crimson pop-
pie flaming from every waving field,
with roses, nasturtiums and trailing
geraniums splitting out OF every win
dow. and tumbling over every garden
wall, and every hillside and meadow
a-yleam with h gold OF huttercup,
mustard, and cowStip, as though they
biooused q perpetual memorial to that
great treaty Of h field of the Cloth
y of-Gold," when ranci l., Henry
VIII. and Cardinal Welsey. amid the
pomp and ~pageantry Of flaring
trumpets and Offering retinue, pitch
ed their slken tents n set their
golden standards On that historic field
between ArdreS- and Cuisines.
Everywhere, as though waiting to
welcome you, the slender Lomhardy
popiars stand in long lines-little and
straight-thefr silvery leaves flutter-
ing in the breeze, their lsSoMfe
bodies bending and reckoning before
You in graceful, gracious French
fashion. while around every red-roof-
ed villa floats the shining flag of the
white maple, signalling q truce to all
care and anxiety, and bidding you
form a speedy alliance with Mirth and
1.ight-Heartedness. those reigning
volutioa, no Communist uprising, and
no disaster have ever succeeded in
overthrOwing.
The Presidential Home.
our first outside trip was to Ram
bOuillet-once the home Of king and
emperor. now the summer residence
of the President of the French re-
public: and most fortunate we were
in visiting it when we did, as Presi-
dent Poncaire takes up his residence
there about the first of July, and then
Ut course it is closed to all corners.
y Thi chateau, the round towers Of
Whic,i were built by Francis l., was
one of the favorite residences OF that
luxury loving monarch. In the sur
rounding forests, deer and wild boar
abound in large number, and in the
great ~banqueting hall In n wing Of
the building where he guests were
wont TO assemble for the hunt, are
spreading a~ntlers, great boars' tusks
and many trophies Of the chase.
What a wonderful picture they
must have made, those kings anl
queens Of old France with their at.
tendant lords and ladies, gathered
there in all the glory of that splendit
Renaissance period, awaiting thu
winding of the huntsman's horn tt
scatter them-a thousand sparkling
points Of light and color against tn
soft background Of that rolling greer
country.
successfully Louis XIV, Louis XIV.
Louis XVI, Marie AntOnette and Ma
poieon all lived at RambOuiIlet, and
indeed. as the numerous residences o
each king are pointed out to you
you and yourself Wonder how in on
brief lifetime one ma could hav
possibly covered so much t%erritOr
and still found time for other things
and you feel that the life they le
could ave been but a little more en-
viable tina that of a d "knigh
Of the grip" as he dashes madly fror
pillars to post.
n a boon our present day auto
mobiles would have been to thOs
rowing monarchs as they laboFiousl
trayersed the country in those lun
bering. golden coaches Of theirs!
Not Much of a Marriage."
At Rambouillet we we're shown tn
bed in which Charles TX. slept tn
night before he signed his abdfcatioT
the dainty white and gold bOufo
"f Marie Antoinette and the }ittl
priv. chapel Of Louis XIV, in whic
4 ~ claimed he and Madame q
Maintenon were secretly married.
calling forth the remark as seen frO1
he ineteen-year-old point OF view
a young girl standing by: My, b.
they couldn't have had very much
a wedding" AS though it won,
hardly profit a woman to marry eve
y King OF France if all the world wei
not by to see and applaud!
Here also is the famous Cypre
Avenue. and most beautiful it is Wit
the sunlight sitting through IT'S feat
cry branches interlaced
perfect setting for those lords ar