I stopped three days at Aix-la-Chapelle to drink the waters and then came
straight to this place stopping half a day in Liege. I shall start for
Paris in a couple of days, as the communication is now open and the public
conveyances re-established. My passport is vise in the following terms:
"Bon pour aller a Paris en suivant la route des armees alliees." I am quite
impatient to visit that celebrated city.
[18] Philipp Klingmann (1762-1824) was better known as an actor than as an
author. - ED.
[19] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, VII, 12, 1. - ED.
[20] "What business have you? None, I travel for amusement. Strange! What
is there strange in travelling to see a fine country?"
[21] Le Compere Mathieu, a satirical novel by the Abbe Henri Joseph
Dulaurens, published 1765 and sometimes (though wrongly) attributed to
Voltaire. One of the prominent talkers in the dialogues is Pere Jean
de Domfront. - ED.
[22] Horace, Epist., I, i, 15. - ED.
[23] This altar, inscribed Deae Victoriae Sacrum (Corpus inscr. lat.
XIII, 8252), was erected by the Roman fleet on the Rhine at the place
now called Altsburg near Cologne and, after its discovery, taken to
Bonn, where it was set up on the Remigius-Platz (now called
Roemer-Platz) on Dec, 3, 1809.
