et dulcedo fidei novis auditoribus multum placeret, dolens diabolus Eufrasiam Lucii filiam vexare coepit, et in ignem jecit.  Quae statim mortua est; sed paulo post, orante Taurino ac jubente ut resurgeret, in nomine Domini resuscitata est.  Nullum in ea adustionis signum apparuit.  Omnes igitur hoc miraculum videntes subito territi sunt, et obstupescentes in Dominum Jesum Christum crediderunt.  In illa die cxx. homines baptizati sunt.  Octo caeci illuminati, et quatuor multi sanati, aliique plures ex diversis infirmitatibus in nomine Domini sunt curati.”]

[Footnote 41:  Masson de St. Amand, Essais Historiques sur Evreux, I. p. 77.]

[Footnote 42:  Duchesne, Scriptores Normanni, p. 279.]

[Footnote 43:  For this observation, as well as for several others touching Evreux and Pont-Audemer, I have to express my acknowledgments to Mr. Cotman’s memoranda.]

[Footnote 44:  Le Brasseur, Histoire du Comte d’Evreux, p. 4.]

[Footnote 45:  Duchesne, Scriptores Normanni, p. 555.]

[Footnote 46:  Goube, Histoire du Duche de Normandie, III. p. 223.]

LETTER XIX.

VICINITY OF EVREUX—­CHATEAU DE NAVARRE—­COCHEREL—­PONT-AUDEMER —­MONTFORT-SUR-RISLE—­HARFLEUR—­BOURG-ACHARD—­FRENCH WEDDING.

(Bourg-Achard, July, 1818.)

Evreux is seldom visited by the English; and none of our numerous absentees have thought fit to settle here, though the other parts of Normandy are filled with families who are suffering under the sentence of self-banishment.  It is rather surprising, that this town has not obtained its share of English settlers:  the air is good, provisions are cheap, and society is agreeable.  Those, too, if such there be, who are attracted by historical reminiscences, will find themselves on historical ground.

The premier viscount of the British parliament derives his name from Evreux; though, owing to a slight alteration in spelling and to our peculiar pronunciation, it has now become so completely anglicised, that few persons, without reflection, would recognize a descendant of the Comtes d’Evreux, in Henry Devereux, Viscount of Hereford.  The Norman origin of this family is admitted by the genealogists and heralds, both of France and of England; and the fate of the Earl of Essex is invariably introduced in the works of those authors, who have written upon Evreux or its honors.

It would have been unpardonable to have quitted Evreux, without rambling to the Chateau de Navarre, which is not more than a mile and half distant from the town.—­This Chateau, whose name recals an interesting period in the history of the earldom, was originally a royal residence.  It was erected in the middle of the fourteenth century by Jane of France, who, with a very pardonable vanity, directed her new palace to be called Navarre, that her Norman subjects might never forget that she was herself a