ches and monuments to these kings, and to
their representative the Comte de Paris. One of these kings brought the
sovereign of England and her husband to visit Eu, and made us feel in
our little Norman town that the great days of Normandy were not over. Of
that fine collection of pictures and of portraits you have been admiring
in the chateau, a great proportion belonged to the Duc de Penthievre,
and these, with many other valuable things in the chateau, were quietly
taken out and saved when the robberies and blasphemies began here, by
the Mayor of Eu of that day, who risked his life by doing that good
deed. When the Comte and the Comtesse de Paris lived here, the park and
the gardens were the pride and pleasure of the people. Those fountains
are fed by water which the Comte de Paris had brought to Eu for the
service of the town, and the town is served by it now. Every year Eu was
filled with people who came and lived here because the Comte and the
Comtesse de Paris were here. What good has their exile done to Eu? Here
in Eu we know them. It is not they who are responsible for the local
debt of Eu, of which we who have to pay it can get no account at all
from our precious authorities, except in the form of a demand for more
taxes!

'As to the last century, you are quite right. Here, in this part of
Normandy, there were no such grievances then as we have now. There were
troubles with bad roads and bad agriculture. There were quarrels about
this right and that privilege. The cures didn't like the grand airs of
the Church dignitaries. The squires (_hobereaux_) were conceited very
often and ignorant and arrogant. We have not got rid of conceit and
ignorance and arrogance, though, by cutting off the heads of a few
squires a hundred years ago! No! as to Eu, at least, take my word for
it, the happiest day we can see will be the day when we can welcome back
here the Prince and the Princess who lived so pleasantly and so usefully
with us and among us, as King and Queen of the French! We are royalists
here because we know the Comte de Paris, and know that he would do his
duty as the king of a free people, and be something better than the tool
of a swarm of needy and self-seeking adventurers. There is a strong
feeling here, too, about the intolerant interference of those atheists
at Paris with the rights of parents and with freedom of conscience. Yet
we are not in the least a priest-ridden people. On the contrary! I can
show you a