104 A Corner of Brittany. 
bare walls, a veritable ruin looking out on the main street of the 
place. Mary Queen of Scots landed at Roscoff on the 14th of 
August, 1548, on her way to espouse the Dauphin of France. Years 
after a chapel was dedicated to a Scottish Saint, Saint Ninien, in 
Mary Stuart was but six years old when she landed at Roscoff. 
She remained there but a short time and then proceeded to Mor- 
laix where she was officially received by Seigneur de Rohan. Af- 
terwards she went to Saint Germain en Laye, where she is said to 
have remained until she was eighteen. Long after, when the wid- 
ow of Francois II., she returned to Scotland and to the sad history 
which awaited her in England, the hereditary foe of the Bretons, 
on whose land she had set her foot in happier days long before. 
The chapel which marks the event of her landing was for many 
years ornamented with many presents and remained a magnificent 
monument of her generosity. Later it fell in ruins and now after 
many years the Roscovites have placed on its wall a tablet that tells 
to the curious the event which the building of the chapel commem- 
orates. 
Not far from the chapel of Mary Stuart, there stands a house re- 
built in modern style, the interior of which is always interesting to 
visit. This house is separated from the chapel by a narrow street, 
and in it one still sees the remnant of an ancient cloister, with a 
beautiful garden protected from the sea by a tall wall in the form 
of the prow of a vessel. Once a cloister, then a place of meeting 
of merchants, it now remains an interesting relic of the Roscoff ot 
the past, its sold columns and architecture recalling some old Ital- 
ian palace of mediaeval antiquity. 
Many other interesting houses exist in the quaint old town of 
Roscoff. The many hiding places for bandits and smugglers, the 
dark cellars, narrow streets, all recall the old days when much of the 
enterprise of the place was turned to the plunder of passing mer- 
chantmen, or equally nefarious practices. The history of the Ros- 
covite corsaires has yet to be written, but the story of Le Negrier 
still preserves something of the romance of the past. Here we 
read of the old bote' 1 r. ^rd. w ik.i c the notorious Captain Le Bi- 
han recount^ ad of a ball of the cor- 
saires in wh u:e participated. 
The little . ous of the corsaires who 
fied to its U~, ... _ , . the He de Batz. There 
