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Title: A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817
With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy,
Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois,
and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured
Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot

Author: W.D. Fellowes

Release Date: January 29, 2004 [EBook #10864]

Language: English

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[Illustration: VIEW of the MONASTERY of LA TRAPPE]

A VISIT TO THE MONASTERY OF LA TRAPPE

IN 1817.

WITH NOTES

_TAKEN DURING A TOUR THROUGH_
LE PERCHE, NORMANDY, BRETAGNE, POITOU, ANJOU,
LE BOCAGE, TOURAINE, ORLEANOIS, AND
THE ENVIRONS OF PARIS.

BY

W.D. FELLOWES, ESQ.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
FROM DRAWINGS MADE ON THE SPOT.

LIST OF THE PLATES.

View of the Monastery of La Trappe

Ruins of the Ancient Church of ditto

Ruins of the Gateway of the ancient Chartreuse

Les Noyades (_vignette_)

Grotto of Heloise at Clisson

Tomb of Abelard and Heloise

Ruins of Abelard's House

Granite Rock in the Garenne

Le Connetable de Clisson (_outline_)

Ruins of Clisson

Tour des Pelerins

Moulin aux chevres

Tour d'Oudon on the River Loire

View of St. Florent

Tomb (_etching_)

PREFACE.

In justice to the public and to myself, I must disavow for the
following pages any higher literary pretension than what is conveyed
by the simple title of "Notes," under which I have ventured to give
them to the world. I had no other aim in writing but to occupy as
rationally as I could the hours of travel, and no other object in
publishing but to impart to others as plainly as I could a portion of
the pleasure I myself experienced. It has somewhere been remarked to
this effect, that i