ing afterwards erected Quimper into a
bishopric, to which he nominated St. Corentin:--

"Voici dans le fond la ville de Kemper,
Asise au confluent de l'Oded et du Ster.
Comme sa cathedrale, aux deux tours dentelees,
S'eleve noblement du milieu des vallees,
O perle de l'Oded, fille du roi Grallon,
Qui de saint Corentin portes aussi le nom,
Rejouis-toi, Kemper, dans tes vielles murailles!
Vois avec quelle ardeur, o reine de Cornouailles,
Tes fils de tous les points de l'antique eveche,
Pecheurs et montagnards, viennent a ton marche!
Cornouillais! en passant pres de sa basilique,
Du bon saint Corentin adorez la relique.
Que tous ceux d'Elliant et des memes chemins
Boivent a sa fontaine et s'y lavent les mains;
Non pas les Leonards, eux de qui les ancetres,
Voici quelque mille ans, hommes jaloux et traitres,
Volerent le poisson dont notre Corentin
Coupait pour se nourrir un pen chaque matin,
Et qui chaque matin, o pieuse merveille!
Nageait dans sa fontaine aussi frais que la veille:
Eh bien! les Leonards volerent ce poisson,
Mais Kemper n'oublie jamais leur trahison;
Sans jouir de leur crime, ils en portent la peine,
Et toujours le poisson nage dans la fontaine."
_Les Bretons_--BRIZEUX.

Quimper, or Quimper-Corentin, is prettily situated at the junction of the
rivers Odet and Stheire; its Breton name, Kemper, signifying confluence.
It was long called Kemper-Odet. On the opposite side of the river the
hills, consisting of a mass of rocks, covered with trees, rise to some
height, and are ascended by well-kept walks. The river runs straight
through the town, like a canal, edged by stone quays and crossed by iron
bridges, with avenues of trees on each side. Trout can be seen in the
sparkling stream; and we watched a boy with a hook at the end of a reel of
black silk, hanging over the bridge, with a piece of kneaded bread for
bait. With this simple tackle he contrived to hook a trout of tolerable
size, and let it run out the length of his silk line till he had tired it
out and landed it. The scenery of the river below Quimper, flowing through
a bed of granite blocks, is, we were told, lovely, but we had no time to
visit it further down. The view from the top of the wood-covered heights
on the opposite side is very extensive, looking down upon the town, with
its cathedral towers rising above, the promenad