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The invitations to the dedication of this tablet are officially said to ha\-e 

 elicited replies which " glorified in abundant and eloquent terms the 

 history of Languedoc, and recalled the ties of fraternity which unite it to 

 Aragon and to Spain." One clerical gentleman from Spain said it would 

 conduce to " la unio dels pobles llatins en altres rahons que en les dels 

 costosos exercits y en les fortificacions de les fronteres." xA.n interesting 

 episode was the reading of a Provencal ode to James the Conqueror by 

 William C. Bonaparte-Wyse, composed at the Manor of St. Johns, 

 Waterford, Ireland — " Lou grand Rei, lou bon Rei " — a spirited poem. 

 Here is a stanza : — 



Lou bon Rei, lou grand Rei 

 Qu'ero de Catalan lou pastour e lou paire 

 Legan di belli dono e di muso I'amaire 



Qu'ero i reiaume, i rei 

 Un nivas e piei uno estello, 

 I nemi de la Gleeso un uiau cerulen ; 

 A milo e milo ami un delicious alen ; 



Tour a tour, trou, voues cantarello I 



Very interesting to me was the Rabelais procession. I present for 

 your inspection the commemorative programme, and one of theMontpellier 

 students' caps, called " la toque Rabelais." Each faculty has a distinctive 

 color. This cap belongs neither to Arts, Medicine, Law, or Divinity, but 

 to a Faculty we have not as yet in Canada — " Les Beaux Arts!' 



ROMAN REMAINS AND SURVIVALS AROUND NIMES. 



We had seen the Palais Gallien (Gallienus' palace) at Bordeaux ; 

 strong Roman masonry, not without the thin hard Roman bricks which 

 are still used in many parts. But it was not until we arrived at Nimes 

 that we felt the influence of Imperial Rome yet strong. 



Nimes passed under the domination of the Eternal City in 121 B.C., when 

 Fabius Maximus beat the Voices Arcomici at the confluence of the Rhone 

 and the Isere. It thus early adopted their laws, and soon their language. 

 It is not mentioned by Caesar, but Augustus, on his way to subjugate the 

 Cantabrians (of Biscay) established a colony of veterans of the army of 

 Egypt (27 B.C.X This may really be called the founding of Nemausis. 

 I saw in the collections of antiquities there at least two Egyptian bronzes 

 — one an Osiris, the other I could not name — which were very likely lost 

 by the men of this very colony. In a few years it came to have institu- 

 tions and monuments like those of Rome, and forty years thereafter 

 Strabo speaks of it as a powerful town. To M. Vipsanius Agrippa, 

 Augustus' son-in-law, it owed its aqueduct, its walls, its roads. Caius and 

 Lucius Caesar, sons of Agrippa, presumptive heirs of Augustus, also 



