274 HINTS ON ANGLING. 



Jovin, a general in the Roman army, on which is 

 engraved the following inscription : 



CENOTAPHE 

 IKIGE DANS LE QUATRIEME SIECLE, 



A FLAV1US JOVIN, REMOIS, 

 PRESET DES GAULES, CHEF DES ARMEES, CONSUL ROMAIN; 



TRANSFERE DE I/EGLISE, SAINT-NICAISE J 

 A LA FIN DU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE, 

 AU VIII. (1800) DE LA REPUBLIQUE. 



This is fantastic enough, and sufficiently descriptive of 

 the mean vanity of the period. 



It is also pretended that there is still remaining in the 

 cathedral the identical baptismal basin, or font, out of 

 which Clovis received the regenerating stream. 



The church of St. Remi is an interesting edifice, and 

 was consecrated in the year 1041. 



The triumphal arch called the Porte-de-Mars, deserves 

 the notice of the antiquarian. It was erected in honour 

 of Caesar and Augustus, when Agrippa, then governor of 

 Gaul, constructed the great military roads near this city. 

 The Hotel de Ville, in which is contained the public library 

 consisting of twenty-five thousand volumes, and more 

 than one thousand manuscripts, is a very fine building, 

 and well deserves a short visit. 



There are several private houses worthy the notice of 

 the passing stranger. At the hotel called the Red-House, 

 we read the following inscription: 



L'AN 1429, AU SACRE DE CHARLES VII. DANS CETTE HoTELLERIE, 

 NOMMEE ALORS L'ANE RAYE, LE PERE ET LA MERE DE JEANNE 

 D'ARC ONT ETE LOGES ET DEFRAYES PAR LE CONSEIL DE 

 VILLE. 



