Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae.

  • Rae, W. Fraser (William Fraser), 1835-1905.
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'was placed alongside it three years ago. The Count de Chambord was once on the verge o£ being hailed by the French as Henry the Fifth, but he emphati- cally declined to make the trivial concession which was first required of him. There is nothing on the cofiin of Charles the Tenth to show that he had worn the crown of France, while a small gilt crown on that of the Count de Chambord represents the crown which was never put upon his head. In this narrow vault lie entombed more than the remains of a few members of the House of Bourbon. In the coffin surmounted with a crown are enclosed the hopes of many millions of Frenchmen, and the aspirations of a dynasty to which France owes much of her glory, and to which she may attribute no small portion of her trials and misfortunes. When emerging from this dismal vault and seeing the bright sky and sweet sunshine again, the beauty of the prospect banishes all sombre thoughts. Every place is alike when the last hour strikes; and, though the cry of the ancient Greek was to die in the sun- light, yet the closing scene must be the same to the ex- piring mortal, whether the place be lovely or wretched, whether the sky be dark or bright. A beholder of the scene from the terrace outside of the chuich at Castagnavizza may forget for the moment the in-