[174] De Barante, Tome XI; pp. 156-158.
[175] Kleinclausz.
[176] The classical orders are five: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite.
[177] The Tour de Bar was named after Renée of Anjou (Duke of Bar), known as good king Renée, who was imprisoned there after the battle of Buligneville in 1431, the year in which Joan of Arc was burned.
[178] The western portion was rebuilt under Louis XIII.
[CHAPTER XV]
By a curious coincidence—by a real coincidence, reader, not by design—it was on a morning of Easter-day that we rode out from Dijon to Lux—on just such an Easter morning as that about which I am going to tell; the air fresh and fragrant, the larks in full song, and the sun shining so strongly in the deep, blue sky, that I had to make a Sunday purchase of a broad-brimmed straw hat. So that, you see, in one sense, I began the day badly, and perhaps deserved the trouble that befell me later.