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Happily
for
the
reputation
of
M
.
de
Rênal
as
an
administrator
an
immense
wall
of
support
was
necessary
for
the
public
promenade
which
goes
along
the
hill
,
a
hundred
steps
above
the
course
of
the
Doubs
.
This
admirable
position
secures
for
the
promenade
one
of
the
most
picturesque
views
in
the
whole
of
France
.
But
the
rain
water
used
to
make
furrows
in
the
walk
every
spring
,
caused
ditches
to
appear
,
and
rendered
it
generally
impracticable
.
This
nuisance
,
which
was
felt
by
the
whole
town
,
put
M
.
de
Rênal
in
the
happy
position
of
being
compelled
to
immortalise
his
administration
by
building
a
wall
twenty
feet
high
and
thirty
to
forty
yards
long
.
The
parapet
of
this
wall
,
which
occasioned
M
.
de
Rênal
three
journeys
to
Paris
(
for
the
last
Minister
of
the
Interior
but
one
had
declared
himself
the
mortal
enemy
of
the
promenade
of
Verrières
)
,
is
now
raised
to
a
height
of
four
feet
above
the
ground
,
and
as
though
to
defy
all
ministers
whether
past
or
present
,
it
is
at
present
adorned
with
tiles
of
hewn
stone
.
How
many
times
have
my
looks
plunged
into
the
valley
of
the
Doubs
,
as
I
thought
of
the
Paris
balls
which
I
had
abandoned
on
the
previous
night
,
and
leant
my
breast
against
the
great
blocks
of
stone
,
whose
beautiful
grey
almost
verged
on
blue
.
Beyond
the
left
bank
,
there
wind
five
or
six
valleys
,
at
the
bottom
of
which
I
could
see
quite
distinctly
several
small
streams
.
There
is
a
view
of
them
falling
into
the
Doubs
,
after
a
series
of
cascades
.
The
sun
is
very
warm
in
these
mountains
.
When
it
beats
straight
down
,
the
pensive
traveller
on
the
terrace
finds
shelter
under
some
magnificent
plane
trees
.
They
owe
their
rapid
growth
and
their
fine
verdure
with
its
almost
bluish
shade
to
the
new
soil
,
which
M
.
the
mayor
has
had
placed
behind
his
immense
wall
of
support
for
(
in
spite
of
the
opposition
of
the
Municipal
Council
)
he
has
enlarged
the
promenade
by
more
than
six
feet
(
and
although
he
is
an
Ultra
and
I
am
a
Liberal
,
I
praise
him
for
it
)
,
and
that
is
why
both
in
his
opinion
and
in
that
of
M
.
Valenod
,
the
fortunate
Director
of
the
workhouse
of
Verrières
,
this
terrace
can
brook
comparison
with
that
of
Saint
-
Germain
en
Laye
.
I
find
personally
only
one
thing
at
which
to
cavil
in
the
COURS
DE
LA
FIDELITE
,
(
this
official
name
is
to
be
read
in
fifteen
to
twenty
places
on
those
immortal
tiles
which
earned
M
.
de
Rênal
an
extra
cross
.
)
The
grievance
I
find
in
the
Cours
de
la
Fidélité
is
the
barbarous
manner
in
which
the
authorities
have
cut
these
vigorous
plane
trees
and
clipped
them
to
the
quick
.
In
fact
they
really
resemble
with
their
dwarfed
,
rounded
and
flattened
heads
the
most
vulgar
plants
of
the
vegetable
garden
,
while
they
are
really
capable
of
attaining
the
magnificent
development
of
the
English
plane
trees
.
But
the
wish
of
M
.
the
mayor
is
despotic
,
and
all
the
trees
belonging
to
the
municipality
are
ruthlessly
pruned
twice
a
year
.
The
local
Liberals
suggest
,
but
they
are
probably
exaggerating
,
that
the
hand
of
the
official
gardener
has
become
much
more
severe
,
since
M
.
the
Vicar
Maslon
started
appropriating
the
clippings
.
This
young
ecclesiastic
was
sent
to
Besançon
some
years
ago
to
keep
watch
on
the
abbé
Chélan
and
some
cures
in
the
neighbouring
districts
.
An
old
Surgeon
-
Major
of
Napoleon
’
s
Italian
Army
,
who
was
living
in
retirement
at
Verrières
,
and
who
had
been
in
his
time
described
by
M
.
the
mayor
as
both
a
Jacobin
and
a
Bonapartiste
,
dared
to
complain
to
the
mayor
one
day
of
the
periodical
mutilation
of
these
fine
trees
.
"
I
like
the
shade
,
"
answered
M
.
de
Rênal
,
with
just
a
tinge
of
that
hauteur
which
becomes
a
mayor
when
he
is
talking
to
a
surgeon
,
who
is
a
member
of
the
Legion
of
Honour
.
"
I
like
the
shade
,
I
have
my
trees
clipped
in
order
to
give
shade
,
and
I
cannot
conceive
that
a
tree
can
have
any
other
purpose
,
provided
of
course
it
is
not
bringing
in
any
profit
,
like
the
useful
walnut
tree
.
"
This
is
the
great
word
which
is
all
decisive
at
Verrières
.
"
BRINGING
IN
PROFIT
,
"
this
word
alone
sums
up
the
habitual
trend
of
thought
of
more
than
three
-
quarters
of
the
inhabitants
.
Bringing
in
profit
is
the
consideration
which
decides
everything
in
this
little
town
which
you
thought
so
pretty
.
The
stranger
who
arrives
in
the
town
is
fascinated
by
the
beauty
of
the
fresh
deep
valleys
which
surround
it
,
and
he
imagines
at
first
that
the
inhabitants
have
an
appreciation
of
the
beautiful
.
They
talk
only
too
frequently
of
the
beauty
of
their
country
,
and
it
cannot
be
denied
that
they
lay
great
stress
on
it
,
but
the
reason
is
that
it
attracts
a
number
of
strangers
,
whose
money
enriches
the
inn
-
keepers
,
a
process
which
brings
in
profit
to
the
town
,
owing
to
the
machinery
of
the
octroi
.
It
was
on
a
fine
,
autumn
day
that
M
.
