Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 472
ons.Napoleon III cut it down in part, and prunedit to more esthetic proportions, and what thereis left, vine and flower grown, is really charming. The Foret de Compiegne as a historic wild-wood goes back to the Druids who practicedtheir mysterious rites under its antique shadecenturies before the… … bo Compiegne and Its Forest 357 and supposedly to the time when they servedthe Druids for their sacrifices. The soldiers of Caesar came later and theiraxes were of iron or copper, and though on thewarpath, too, their way was one which wassupposed to lead civilization into the wilder-ness.…
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