Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy

by Percy Allen

In the old quarter, I remember one particularly good timbered Gothic house, known as the Maison de Bois.

Footnotes:

[116] And he knew it. "I enjoyed at that time so great a renown, and I so outshone all with the glamour of youth and beauty, that I needed to fear no refusal, whoever might be the woman to whom I chanced to address myself."

[117] "La Passion d'Héloïse et d'Abélard," Bertheroy, p. 45.

[118] "quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avanti," Inferno, Canto V., 138.

[119] Bertheroy, p. 97.

[120] Paraclet—The Consoler, the Holy Ghost.

[121] Abélard's letter to Philintus. "Love Letters of Abélard and Héloïse," p. 19, Temple Classics.