![]() I was looked upon with contempt, like a man who should project a journey to the moon, but yet with a respectful interest, like one setting forth for the inclement Pole. A traveller of my sort was a thing hitherto unheard of in that district. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of mountain people, nor even from the surprise with which I was regarded as a man living of his own free will in Le Monastier, when he might just as well have lived anywhere else in this big world it arose a good deal from my projected excursion southward through the Cevennes. In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying-point every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger. Except for business purposes, or to give each other the lie in a tavern brawl, they have laid aside even the civility of speech. There are adherents of each of the four French parties-Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans -in this little mountain-town and they all hate, loathe, decry, and calumniate each other. ![]() Monastier is notable for the making of lace, for drunkenness, for freedom of language, and for unparalleled political dissension. ![]() IN a little place called Le Monastier map, in a pleasant highland valley fifteen miles from Le Puy map, I spent about a month of fine days. 35242 The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes' - The Donkey, The Pack, And The Pack-Saddle Robert Louis Stevenson ![]()
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