I Shall Not Pretend To Describe The Castle Or Palace Of
Fontainbleau, Of Which I Had Only A Glimpse In
Passing; but the
forest, in the middle of which it stands, is a noble chace of
great extent, beautifully wild
And romantic, well stored with
game of all sorts, and abounding with excellent timber. It put me
in mind of the New Forest in Hampshire; but the hills, rocks, and
mountains, with which it is diversified, render it more
agreeable.
The people of this country dine at noon, and travellers always
find an ordinary prepared at every auberge, or public-house, on
the road. Here they sit down promiscuously, and dine at so much a
head. The usual price is thirty sols for dinner, and forty for
supper, including lodging; for this moderate expence they have
two courses and a dessert. If you eat in your own apartment, you
pay, instead of forty sols, three, and in some places, four
livres ahead. I and my family could not well dispense with our
tea and toast in the morning, and had no stomach to eat at noon.
For my own part, I hate French cookery, and abominate garlick,
with which all their ragouts, in this part of the country, are
highly seasoned: we therefore formed a different plan of living
upon the road. Before we left Paris, we laid in a stock of tea,
chocolate, cured neats' tongues, and saucissons, or Bologna
sausages, both of which we found in great perfection in that
capital, where, indeed, there are excellent provisions of all
sorts.
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