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A dull town -- Cathedral -- Jacques Cujas -- His daughter -- Pius VI. -- His death -- Maison des Têtes -- Le Pendentif -- The castle of Crussol -- The dukes of Uzès -- A dramatic company of the thirteenth century.
What a sleepy place Valence is! There was supposed to be a fair there when I was at Valence, but even that could not wake it up. But the fair was in a condition of the utmost somnolence itself. Why -- I did not suspect till I reached Vienne, when I found that this latter place had drawn to it all that was enterprising, startling, attractive, and left only the very dregs of fairings to poor Valence.