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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
raging, and he was almost in despair. Montpellier, a city of fifty thousand inhabitants in 1859, lies on the Gulf of Lyons, within easy distance from Cette on the west, and Nimes and Arles to the east. It is aside from the track of tourists, and is now less than formerly the resort of invalids, who are repelled by its variable climate and its shadeless and dusty streets. It has a fine gallery, and is distinguished for an old university. The University of Montpellier celebrated, in May, 1890, the completion of its sixth century; and an account of the fetes is given by Dr. D. C. Gilman in the New York Nation, June 19, 1890. The favorite resort of the people is the Promenade du Peyrou, an extensive terrace planted with limetrees, decorated with a triumphal arch, an equestrian statue of Louis XIV., and the Chateau d'eau, and commanding a view of the Mediterranean and the Cevennes. The way from the modern quarter, where the hotels are situated, to the Promenade was in 1859, and e