The Idler in France

a considerable improvement in the different towns we passed through: the people look cleaner, and an air of busine

hey had been greatly excited, and amply repa

e two last: for if the Coliseum may be said to surpass the amphitheatre in dimensions, the wonderful state of preservation of the latter renders it more interesting; and the Maison Carré

sgusting entourage that impairs the effect of the latter; and in examining them in the interior or exterior

s the sky, so genial the air, and so striking the monuments of Roman s

cuisine soignée. In this latter point the French h?tels are far superior to th

ufacture of Nismes, came to display their merchandise. The specimens were good, and the prices moderate; so we bought some of each, much to the satisfaction of the par

d to erect a new h?tel-de-ville; and he, after having degraded it by using a portion of it as a party-wall to a mean dwelling he erected adjoining it, disposed of it to a *Sieur Bruyes, who, still more barbarous than Pierre Boys, converted it into a stable. In 1670, it was purchased by the Augustin monks from the descendants of Bruyes, and once more used as a church; and, in 1789, it was taken from the Augustin monks for the purposes of the administration of the department. From that period, every thing has been

long, and only thirty-eight feet wide. Elevated on a base of cut stone, it is ascended by a flight of steps, which exte

sculptured, on which rests the architrave, with frieze and cornice. This las

ourth, when commences the wall of the building, in which the other columns are half imbedded, being united in the building with its architrave. The fronton, which is o

placing on paper the exact dimensions of the holes which formerl