The Christmas Kalends of Provence

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Thomas A. Janvier. The Christmas Kalends of Provence

The Christmas Kalends of Provence

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The Christmas Kalends. of Provence

A Feast-Day on the Rhône

The Comédie Française. at Orange

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Thomas A. Janvier

And Some Other Provençal Festivals

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When I went down stairs, five minutes later, I found him standing in the hall by the open doorway: through which I saw, bright in the morning light across the level landscape, King René's castle and the church of Sainte-Marthe in Tarascon; and over beyond Tarascon, high on the farther bank of the Rhône, Count Raymond's castle of Beaucaire; and in the far distance, faintly, the jagged peaks of the Cévennes.

But that was no time for looking at landscapes. "Come along!" he cried. "They all are waiting for us at the Mazet," and he hurried me down the steps to the terrace and so around to the rear of the Château, talking away eagerly as we walked.

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