CHAPTER VI.. Les Alyscamps.

LES ALYSCAMPS.

Difficulty of finding one's way about in Arles--The two inns--The mistral--The charm of Arles is in the past--A dead city--Situation of Arles on a nodule of limestone--The Elysian Fields--A burial-place for the submerged neighbourhood--The Alyscamp now in process of destruction--Expropriation of ancient tombs--Avenue of tombs--Old church of S. Honoré--S. Trophimus--S. Virgilius--Augustine, apostle of the English, consecrated by him--The flying Dutchman--Tomb of Ælia--Of Julia Tyranna--Her musical instruments--Monument of Calpurnia--Her probable story--Mathematical versus classic studies--Tombs of utriculares--Christian sarcophagi--Probably older than the date usually attributed to them--A French author on the wreckage of the Elysian Fields