Departure under an unlucky star--Essonne--Petit Bourg--The Czar Peter--Fontainebleau--Palace--Apartments of the Emperor Charles the Fifth--Chamber where Pius the Seventh said mass daily--Chapel founded in the seventh century--Cypher of the Saviour and Virgin placed beside those of Henry the Second and Diana of Poitiers--Princess Mary of Orleans--Napoleon's apartments--Marie Antoinette's boudoir--Carving by Louis the Sixteenth's hand--Monaldeschi, favourite of Queen Christina--Gallery where he was murdered--Account of his murder by the Monk who confessed him, of his burial at dusk in the church of Avon--Window thrown open by Henry the Fourth, to announce Louis the Thirteenth's birth--Gallery of Henry the Second, called Galerie des Réformés--Petition in which they took the name presented here by Coligny--Open chamber above the Donjon--Arch where Louis the Thirteenth was publicly baptized--Biron's tower--His treason--His denial--His last interview with Henry the Fourth--Napoleon--The Forest--The Comte de Moret, last inhabitant of the Hermitage of Franchard--Fanny's sagacity--Croix du Grand Veneur--The spectre hunt--Apparition and warning to Henry the Fourth, corroborated by Sully--Avon--Monaldeschi, Christina's fickle lover--The old church--The fat porter--The grave beneath the Bénitier--The Englishmen's sacrilege--Monaldeschi their relative--Precautions against travellers
Moret--The Nunnery--Louis the Fourteenth's black daughter--Two useful Saints--Villeneuve la Guyard---Descriptions deceitful--Strange cure for blood to the head--A River-god on terra-firma--Sens--St. Colombe, Thomas à Becket's refuge--Villeneuve le Roy--Place where the Vine was first cultivated--Auxerre--The Chapter's hundred years' Law-suit concerning fur trimmings--The Canons' games at ball--The Cathedral occupying the site of the first Christian Chapel--St. Germain--The Saint's refusal to get out of his Grave to reform England--Tombs of Dukes of Burgundy--Ill-treatment in a Church from a School at its devotions--Lucy le Bois--The Face in a Hole in the Wall--Taken for a beast--Arnay le Duc--La Rochepot--A danger avoided through Grizzle's affection--An unamiable Carter--Chalons, Cæsar's head-quarters--Cross seen by Constantine--Punishment of past times for unskilful Physicians--A Prince of Portugal, Monk at St. Laurents--Cathedral
