A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817
PREFACE.
CHAP. I. ROUTE FROM PARIS TO MORTAGNE.—EXCURSION
TO LA TRAPPE.—STATE OF THE ORDER SINCE THE RESTORATION IN 1814.—ITS
FOUNDATION AND RULES UNDER THE ABBE DE RANCE.
CHAP. II. VAL-DIEU.—RUINS OF THE CONVENT OF THE
CHARTREUSE.—FORESTS OF LE PERCHE, MORTAGNE.
CHAP. III. FROM MORTAGNE TO RENNES, SOEURS DE LA
CHARITE. ALENCON, LAVAL, VITRE, THE RESIDENCE OF THE CELEBRATED MADAME
DE SEVIGNE. RENNES.
CHAP. IV. ROUTE FROM RENNES TO NANTES. CITY OF
NANTES. HISTORICAL ANECDOTES.
CHAP. V. COUNTRY SOUTH OF THE LOIRE.—LE
BOCAGE.—CLISSON.—HISTORICAL ANECDOTES.—THE GARENNE, AND RIVER
SEVRES.
CHAP. VI. LIMITS AND GENERAL APPEARANCE OF LE
BOCAGE. MODE OF WARFARE PRACTISED BY THE VENDEANS.
CHAP. VII. RIVER LOIRE, FROM NANTES TO ANGERS.
CHAP. VIII. SAUMUR TO TOURS—TOURS—TOURS TO
BLOIS—ORLEANS—AND ORLEANS TO PARIS.
CHAP. IX. ENVIRONS OF PARIS—PERE LA
CHAISE—CASTLE OF VINCENNES—AND CHATEAU OF ST. GERMAIN—ITS FOREST AND
VICINITY.
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