Le déjeûner est-il prêt?

Je prendrai du café, si vous voulez bien.

Il nous faut encore des tartines.

Une tasse de thé.

Déjeuner à la fourchette.

une volaille.

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Meublées ou non meublées ?

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Have you apartments to let? Furnished or unfurnished?

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promenade?

ROUTE 1.

many, may be plombé (sealed), to save examination till the end of the journey. Luggage, direct to Paris,

Creil, and Paris.

Opened throughout in 1849. Distance, 203 miles. Five trains daily, three of which are express, and two are through from London; 7 to 12 hours (See Bradshaw's Continental Handbook.)

CALAIS,

21 miles from Dover.

HOTELS.-Hotel Dessin, first-class good hotel. Paris Hotel, kept by A. Louis; the nearest hotel to the steam-packets and the railway station.

Hotel Meurice, Rue de Guise, open for night trains and boats; moderate charges.

The Buffet Hotel, at the railway station; conveniently situated; sleeping, refreshments, and accommodation at moderate charges. Louis Duvivier, the Buffet Hotel commissioner, who speaks English, is very civil and obliging.

De Flandre; Du Sauvage; De Londres; Quillacy; Marine, &c.

The Railway Station, douane, and passport office are on the pier; passports are visé without delay, or may be procured of the consul for 4s. 6d.

Paris time, 9 minutes earlier than London, is kept along the line. Passengers landing here, direct to Marseilles, Brussels, &c., should say so; and luggage, if merely going across France to Belgium and GerA

than will go under the seat (about 60lbs. are allowed) it must be booked, or enregistré, and ticketed, two sous being charged. At the journey's end hand your ticket to the commissionnaire of your hotel, who will clear it for you without trouble for the usual fee.

On embarking here, for London, a permis must be asked for. Luggage direct to London by rail is not examined at Dover or Folkestone, but at the Charing Cross Station.

English Consul, Capt. B. W. Hotham. There are also consuls for Belgium, Holland, &c.

English Chapel in Rue des Prêtres.

Banker, M. Guilbert, Grande Place.

There are several reading rooms and collections of natural history, antiquities, &c. High water at moon's full and change, 11h. 45m.

CHIEF OBJECTS OF NOTICE.-The Citadel and ramparts-Calais Gate-Hôtel de Ville-MuseumHôtel de Guise.

Pop., 22,500. This well-known half English port and fortified town of the first class is in a flat corn and flax country on the Pas-de-Calais (which Eng. lishmen call the Straits of Dover), about two hours' steam passage from Dover, to which it is joined by the electric telegraph. It appears to have been founded by the Counts of Flanders in the 11th cent.; and was chosen as his place of embarkation by Louis the Dauphin, when the malcontents, under

La Place, the astronomer, and Mollier, the traveller, were natives. They show Sterne's room at Dessin's hotel.

Calais forms a long square, surrounded by ramparts (which have a view of the English coast) and ditches, and defended by several forts, as Forts Rouge and Wert (red and green), on the piers; another, on the quay; Fort Nieulay, on the south-west: and Cardinal Richelieu's strong Citadel, to the west, commanding the whole. The shallow Harbour is the mouth of the river de Hames, enclosed between piers, one of which is three-quarters of a mile long, with a pillar on the spot where Louis XVIII. set his foot in 1814. The inscription itself, which was meant "pour en perpetuer le souvenir" of this event, is now hid away under a staircase in the museum. The harbour was deepened in 1842, but passengers sometimes land in boats still. A Gate, built by Richelieu in 1685, called the Porte du Havre, which figures in Hogarth's picture of the "Roast Beef of England," leads from the pier.

The streets are narrow, the houses chiefly of brick, and common-looking. In the Grand Place, or Place du Beffroi, are the Light-house or old look-out tower, and the Hotel de Ville, with busts of St. Pierre, the Duc 'de Guise, and Richelieu, in front; inside, is the library of 6,000 volumes. The Duc de Guise thus celebrated as the "deliverer" of Calais, is here confounded with Iris son, surnamed le Balafré. The Church, built by the English, is a cross-shaped, Gothic structure, with a good spire-tower, and pinnacles, and contains 11 chapels, a fine marble altar, and a painting by Vandyke. St. Pierre is in Basse Ville, or Lower Town, in the south-east, where many hands (English and others) are employed in the tulle and lace factories.

At the Museum (open three days a week, from 10 to 5), is the car of Blanchard, the æronaut, who, with Dr. Jeffries, safely crossed the channel in 1785; also several portraits, autographs, and pictures, including Correggio's "Vierge au Bandeau," given to the town by the Princess of Canino (Lucien Bonaparte's wife), who was born here in 1788. In Cour de Guise is the old Hôtel, which belonged to the merchants of the wool staple, and where Henry VIII. lodged. There are a large barrack, a salle de spectacle, or theatre, a navigation school, &c., and good Baths, to which reading, dancing, and other rooms are attached: subscriptions, 10 fr. a month; a single bath, 1 fr. A stone

A canal is cut to the river Aa, which goes to St.

Omer, past the Field of the Cloth of Gold. The fisher

men live in the suburbs of Courgaine.

Trade in lace, fish, eggs, spirits, salt, and steamengines for pressing linseed oil.

Conveyances, by rail, to Lille, Paris, Brussels, Cologne, &c. (See Bradshaw's Continental Guide); by coach to Gravelines, Dunkirk, and Boulogne (see Route 2). By steamer to Dover, 2 hours, or (with rail) 6 hours to London; to London direct, 10 hours. The electric telegraph is laid down to Boulogne, as well as along the rail to Paris.

[From Calais, on the road to Dunkerque, or Dunkirk, you pass

GRAVELINES (22 kil.), on a flat, dreary coast, a port of 5,200 souls, at the Aa's mouth, where Henry VIII. embarked in 1520. It has an arsenal, and a monument by Girardon, in the church. Flax, hemp, corn, colza, &c., are abundant in this country of dykes and willows.

Hotel.-Lesur.

At 20 kil. further is Dunkirk (see Route 3).] From Calais, the first station is the suburban village of

St. Pierre (1 miles), the birth place of the famous Eustache St. Pierre, the defender of Calais in the siege of 1347 (above-mentioned) against Edward III., who was so incensed by the long resistance he experienced here, that he was about to put him and five other leaders to death, when they were saved by the intercession of Queen Philippa-the subject of a well-known picture.

Ardres (6 miles), a small fortified town, near the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where Henry VIII. and Francis I. met, 1520; so called from the splendid equipages displayed, of which there is a curious picture at Hampton Court. All this part is now covered with willows and flax fields, in the centre of which is the village of Les Saules (pop. 900), which grows as much as £80,000 worth of flax yearly. The écouchers, or scutchers, prepare steeped flax for the spinners, working in little clay-built huts, or boutiques. Coach to Guines (once a fortress), with 4,700 souls, and a trade in cattle and poultry. The Rev. G. Husband is English chaplain at Guines.

Audruicq (5 miles). Coach to Bourbourg.