A very interesting excursion of rather less than five miles is to the famous Abbey of St. Denis, for many centuries the Inst resting-place of the Kings and Queens of France. The busy town of St. Denis lies close to the Seine, and the Abbey Church, or Cathedral, is its principal object of interest. We go either by train from the Gare clu Nord, or by tram from the starting points either of the madeleine or the Opera-house, or from the Place clu Chatelet. St. Denis is the patron saint of France, and the name St. Denis, or sometimes Montjoye St. Denis, was for a long period the watery of the French soldiers, and this was continued long after the banner of St. Denis, red silk covered with golden tongues, had
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