...this piece of village prudery, however, she would assign no reason but"«A/ main, que voulez-vous?" and those broken interjections and accompanying shrugs...interspersed with transverse beams painted black, and deep* ly buried in their " b&uquet d'arbres," or knots of fruit and forest trees, strongly resemble...

...the door admitted. This true model of an Irish cabin would now, I believe, scarcely be found in anj part of France, not even in the north, where the peasantry...trees, strongly resemble the farming tenements of Staffordshire and Shropshire. ' The modern French cottages, however, are strong, and well built ; and...

...character the French habitations, as far as my observation extends, do not attain ; although I beard much of the flat-roofed cottages of Quercy, and of...compact buildings, composed of brick, interspersed with traverse beams painted black, and deeply buried in their " bouquet d'arbres," or knots of fruit and...

...with the declaration, that the peasants of France were in a situation superior to any in Europe. " The nearest approach to English comfort, which we...painted black, and deeply buried in their ' bouquet (farbres,' or knots of fruit and forest trees, strongly resemble the farming tenements of Staffordshire...

...this piece of village prudery, however, she would assign no reason but " eh ! mais, que voulez-vous?" and those broken interjections and accompanying shrugs...trees, strongly resemble the farming tenements of Staffordshire and Shropshire. The modern French cottages, however, are strong, and well built ; and...