ce diable de pays : this bewitched country

12. Piorence. The southeastern corner of France was called by the Romans Frovintia Noslra. During the Middie Ages iC was govemed by the counls of Provence, but in i486 il was united to the Kingdom of France by Charles VIII. The Provençal language, which retains a closer affinity to the Latin than the French, is the corn mon colloquial language of Languedoc, west of the Rhône, as of Provence east of that river. Indeed, in various dialects it is spoken as far north as the Loire in France, in Northwestern Italy, and in Noitheastem Spain. The national characterûtics of the two old provmces are also 30 nearly alike that Daudet uses indifFerently the adjectives Prmitiiçal and Méridional in speakîng of the popular peculianties of the southem

13. la butte Hontmartie. A hill, three hundred feet h^h, on the northem edge of Paris now closely built ovei.

14. la Kalson cairée de Nîmes. The littie Roman temple ai Nimes, though very well preserved, considering its âge of 1900 years, is only 82 feet long by 40 wide. The cathedra^ of Notre Dame at Paris, built in the thirteenth century, is more than fîve limes as long as the Maison carrée, and covers about forty limes as much ground.