j I 2                       A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE.
denied that the air of the whole thing is original and
striking; and it would therefore appear, after all, that
S Sedral of Angers, built during the twel * and
thirteenth centuries, is a sufficiently honorable churchy
the more that its high west front, adorned with a very
primitive Gothic portal, supports two elegant tapering
spires, between which, unfortunately, an ugly modern
pavilion has been inserted.                               r,lr,ous
I remember nothing else at Angers but the curiou*
old Café Serin, where, after I had had my dinner at
the inn, I went and waited for the tram which «
o'clock in the evening, was to convey me, majpte
of hours, to Nantes,-an establishment remarkable fo
its great size and its air of tarnished spkndor,
brown gilding and smoky frescos, as also for the tact
tSt it las hidden away on the second floor o   an un
assuming house in an unillummated street.    It hardly
emTa place where you would drop in; buwhen
once you had found it, it presented itself, with the
cathedral, the castle, and the Maison d'Adam, as one
of the historical monuments of Angers.
XV.
IF I spent two nights at Nantes, it was for reasons
of convenience rather than of sentiment; though in-
deed, I spent them in a big circular room which had
a sfately! lofty, last-century look,-a.look hat con-
soled me a little for the whole place being dirty.   Ihe