s mountains, its people, speaking a strange language,
entirely under the subjection of the priests, rendered it peculiarly
adapted to carry on a war against the republicans; a war, the whole object
of which was to upset all order, by preventing the citizens from accepting
office under the republic, by punishing those who acquired national
property, by stopping couriers and all public conveyances, destroying
bridges, breaking up roads, assassinating public officers, and executing
horrible punishments on those who sent provisions into the towns.

The castle of La Hunaudaye was destroyed by order of the Commune of
Lamballe, in 1793, that it might not serve as a retreat for the Chouans.

We arrived very wet at Lamballe, a town most picturesquely situated on the
declivity of a granite cliff, surmounted by a handsome church, rising from
the very edge of the rocks. It formed part of the territory of the Duke of
Penthievre, whose heiress, Jeanne la Boiteuse, married Charles of Blois,
the competitor with John de Montfort(7) for the dukedom of Brittany. More
tenacious of her rights than her husband, Jeanne would never listen to any
compromise. After the treaty of Bretigny, the kings of England and France
proposed a division of the duchy between the two rivals; but, intimidated
by his wife, Charles dared not consent; and again, before the battle of
Auray, when a division was agreed upon, subject to the acceptance of the
Countess, Jeanne exclaimed, "My husband makes too cheap a bargain of what
is not his own." And she wrote to Charles, "Do what you please. I am a
woman, and cannot do more; but I had rather lose my life, or two if I had
them, before I would consent to so reproachable an act, to the shame of my
family" (_des miens_). Later she said to him, "Preserve me your heart, but
preserve me also my duchy, and, happen what may, act so that the
sovereignty remains to me entire." Her pride and obstinacy cost her
husband his life. The name of Lamballe is associated with the memory of
the unfortunate Princesse de Savoie de Carignan, the sad victim of
revolutionary fury. On the death of her husband, the Prince de Lamballe,
the vast estates of the Penthievre family passed to his sister, the wife
of Philippe Egalite, and from her descended to Louis Philippe, King of the
French.

[Illustration: 17. Section of Lanleff Church.]

Next day we made an excursion to the famed Temple of Lanleff, in Breton,
the "land of tears," situated in a r