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The Jardin de l' Orangerie, on the north of the palace, called Jardin des
Buis under Francois I., contains a good renaissance portal. To the east of
the parterre and the town is the park, which has no beauty, but harmonizes
well with the chateau.
Visitors should not fail to drive in the Forest, 80 kilometers in circuit,
and, if they return late, may look out for its black huntsman--"le grand
veneur." ... The forest was a favorite hunting-ground of the kings of
France to a late period. It was here that the Marquis de Tourzel, Grand
Provost of France, husband of the governess of the royal children,
fractured his skull, his horse bolting against a tree, when hunting with
Louis XVI., in November, 1786. The forest is the especial land of French
artists, who overrun and possess it in the summer. There are innumerable
direction-posts, in which all the red marks--put up by Napoleon III.,
because so few peasants could read--point to town.
St. Denis
By Grant Allen
[Footnote: From "Paris."]
About six miles north of the original Paris stands the great Basilica of
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