Déjeuner à la fourchette.

A meat breakfast.

une volaille.

Meublées ou non meublées ?

Avez-vous des chambres à louer?

Quel est le prix du loyer?

Have you apartments to let ?

Furnished or unfurnished?

What are the terms?

Banquier.

Négociant.

Où est le bureau de poste?

Je voudrais acheter un chapeau.

Je voudrais acheter des souliers.

Je voudrais acheter une robe.
Voulez-vous me raser?

these sovereigns?

A banker.

A merchant.

Where is the post-office?

I want to buy a hat.

I want to buy a pair of shoes.

I want to buy a dress (lady's).

Will you shave me?

means horses).

J'ai du linge a laver; lavez le avec soin.

Quand me le rapportiez-vous ?

Il faudra que vous rapporterez la note.

Voulez-vous que nous allions faire un tour de promenade ?

De bien bon cœur-Très volontiers.

Peut-on passer à travers ce champ?

Quel est ce joli hameau ?

Où peut-on lire les journaux ?

I have some linen to wash; wash it carefully. When will you bring it home?

Bring the bill with you.

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Shall we take a walk?

On lit les ouvrages pèriodiques et les journaux) aux cabinets de lecture au Palais Royal.

Donnez-moi un verre de limonade.

Je vous suis bien obligé.

With great pleasure.

Is there any way across the fields?
What pretty place is that?

Where can we see the newspapers?

You may see the periodicals and papers, &c., at the reading rooms of the Palais Royal.

Give me a glass of lemonade.

I am obliged to you.

liqueur.

Je suis à vos ordres; allons nous en; partons.

J'ai besoin d'un cheval de selle.

Donnez-lui une mesure d'avoine.

I am ready let us go.

I want a horse to ride.

Give him a feed of oats.

Combien demandez-vous?

C'est trop cher.

Bon jour.

carriage).

What is the price? If the reply is not understood, say, Ecrivez le, si'l vous plait,-Write it down, please.

It is too dear.

Good day.

ROUTE I.

Calais to St. Omer, Lille, Arras, Amiens,

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. Rail to Boulogne. (See BRADSHAW'S Continental Hand-Book.)

CALAIS.

21 miles from Dover.

HOTELS.-Hotel Dessin, first-class good hotel. 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 visée without delay, or may be procured of the Consul.

Paris time, 94 minutes earlier than London, is kept along the line. Passengers landing here, direct to Marseilles, Brussels, Brindisi, &c., should say

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so; and luggage, if merely going across France to Belgium and Germany, may be plombé (sealed), to save examination till the end of the journey. Luggage, direct to Paris, is not examined till its arrival there. If it be more than will go under the scat (about 601bs. 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 the United States, Belgium, Holland, &c.

English Chapels in Rue des Prêtres, and at St. Pierre.

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

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

Population, 15,000. 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 Englishmen 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 century; and was chosen as his place of embarkation by Louis the Dauphin, when the malcontents, under King John, offered him the crown of England. Subsequently to the battle of Crécy, in 1346, it was taken after 11 months' siege (Eustace St. Pierre leading the defenders), by the English, who kept it till the Duke of Guise recaptured it in Mary's time, 1558, to the profound mortification of the Queen and the nation. "If you open my body after my death," she said, you will find Calais written on my heart."

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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 Vert (red and green), on the piers; another, on the quay; Fort Nieuley, on the southwest; 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 1812, 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 Hôtel 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 his son, surnamed Balafré. The Church, built by the English, is a cross-shaped Gothic structure, with a good spiretower, 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 outside the Boulogne gate marks the place where the unfortunate Lady Hamilton was buried.

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

A canal is cut to the river Aa, which goes to St. Omer, past the Field of the Cloth of Gold. The fishermen live in the suburbs of Courgaire.

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

Conveyances: By rail, to Boulogne, Lille, Paris, Brussels, Cologne, &c. (See BRADSHAW's Continental Guide); by coach to Gravelines and Dunkirk. By steamer to Dover, 2 hours; to London direct, 10 hours. The electric telegraph is laid to Boulogne and Paris.

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

Gravelines (22 kil.); on a flat dreary coast, a port of 6,430 souls, at the Aa's mouth, where Henry VIII. embarked in 1520. Here the Spaniards and English defeated Francis I., 1558. A branch rail, via Watten (see p. 3), was opened 1873. 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).]

A rail in progress from Calais to Gravelines and Dunkirk will open a direct route this way to Brussels.

of Arques (2 kil.) near the Sept Ecluses, or seven locks of the Aa, which falls 40 feet here, in its descent to Gravelines.

Eblinghem (6 miles).

Hazebrouck (6 miles), where the lines to Dunkirk and Lille join, is a sous-préfecture of 5,600 souls, in a fertile spot, on a branch of the Lys. It has a large church, built 1490-1520, with a handsome spire-tower of 276 feet; a new Hôtel de Ville, fronted by a portico of twelve pillars; a government tobacco factory, at the old Augustine convent; a library of 4,000 volumes. Linen, soap, &c., are made.

Hotel.-Des Trois Chevaux (three horses). Passing Steenbecque (4 miles) and Thiennes (3 miles) the line reaches

Aire (3 miles), a third class fortress, where the Lys and Laquette meet the St. Omer and Basséc canals. It has a belfry; and St. Paul's Gothic Church. Malle branche was a native. Population, 8,300.

Hotels.-D'Angleterre; De France.

Lillers (4 miles), in department Pas-de-Calais, on the fertile banks of the Nave, where one of the earliest artesian wells in France was bored, socalled from the old name, Artois, of this province. Population, 6,000.

The next station Chocques, is followed by Bethune (4 miles), a station on the main line from Hazebrouck to Arras, a sous-préfecture, and a strong military place of the second class, on the river Brette. The grand place (square) has, near the Hôtel de Ville, a curious and lofty spire-tower or belfry. Much of the water is supplied by artesian wells, which were first tried here. Population, 8,300.

Hotels.-De France; D'Angleterre; Du Lion d'Or (Golden Lion).

The wood of Dames Chartreuses offers a fine panorama.

From Bethune a rail proceeds to Douai, by way of Lens and Carvin; and another, 34 miles long, proceeds to Lille, by way of Bully-Grenay and Violaines. Road to St. Pol.

The next station is

Lens, an old place on the Eleux, where the Prince of Condé, in 1648, gained a victory over the Spaniards.

OBJECTS OF NOTICE.-Citadel-Church, and Porte St. André-St. Maurice's Church-Hôtel de Ville-Museum-Hôpital Comtesse.

Population, 131,900. A large manufacturing town, on the Belgian frontier, capital of department du Nord (formerly of French Flanders), and a strongly fortified post, standing in a fertile and populous plain, covered with windmills and factories, on the Deule. It grew out of an abbey, founded about 840; was improved by Baldwin V., in 1047, and after many events, including the taking of it from the Spaniards, by Louis XIV., in 1667, and from the French, by Marlborough, in 1708, it was finally given up to France, 1713.

In shape it is an oval, about 2,620 yards by 1,300 yards, entirely closed in by ramparts and ditches, strengthened by 15 bastions, by Fort St. Maurice on the south-cast side, and a Citadel of great extent, on the west. The latter, one of Vauban's best, is five-sided, and considered almost impregnable. The Austrians tried to take it, 1792, but without success; a fact commemorated by a bronze column, in the Grande Place, near the Bourse.

Porte St. André is the oldest of its seven gates, having been built in 1670; the Porte de Paris has a triumphal arch, by Volans, built 1682, in honour of Louis XIV., whose bust is here, accompanied by figures of Hercules and Mars. The best streets are