Photo by Arthur Stanley Riggs 

 A FEW MILES FROM NIMES THE ROMANS FLUNG THIS WONDERFUL AQUEDUCT 

 ACROSS THE VALLEY OF THE GARDON 

 It stands 160 feet high and is as full of grace as it was of utility (see pages 433-434) 



through the fields and beside the milky 

 roads ; buttercups and mustard gild them. 



CRADLE OF THE SAVOYARDS 



And Chambery, in the sunny heart of 

 this colorful panorama, is not less tem- 

 peramental than its setting. It delights 

 the dreamer with its profound air of 

 mystery; with its passageways that bur- 

 row ostentatiously under whole blocks of 

 houses in every direction, making it pos- 

 sible to traverse much of the town with- 

 out using the streets ; with its tremendous 

 castle — now a police station — that cradled 

 the Savoyard dynasty, today upon the 

 throne of Italy; with its river that loses 

 itself in the main square ; and with its 

 rustic charm of a shepherd and his flock 

 on the principal thoroughfare. 



The country between Grenoble and 

 Lyon, after the crags of Dauphine are 

 left behind, is no less magical, though in 

 a quieter way: soft pastorals that unroll 

 in placid succession ; tiny towns on gentle 

 swales that seem ancient woodcuts come 

 to life; cows cropping the rich grass or 



ambling home to their rude byres beside 

 farm-houses guarded by straight old pop- 

 lars ; now a Spanish-looking town, all 

 made of mud ; hedge-rows not too tall to 

 keep sleek goats from nibbling at their 

 tender tops. 



RICH, INDUSTRIAL LYON 



Lyon might be called the New York 

 of France, a great manufacturing city, 

 its heart on the tongue of land at the 

 confluence of two great rivers, the Rhone 

 and the Saone, and dominated at one side 

 by a towering palisade, on whose very 

 summit rises the monstrous modern 

 Byzantine Church of Fourviere. The 

 people inevitably suggest Americans — the 

 beautiful women gowned with taste and 

 restraint ; the men broad-shouldered, en- 

 ergetic, and alert; the flocks of pretty 

 children well dressed and with charming 

 manners, while what one sees of the life 

 of the city is as spirited and delightfully 

 refreshing as the cool floods that sweep 

 past its long quays. 



It is a beautifully arranged city, which 



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