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Vol. VII. August 1, ' 1861. No. 42.
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LVI.—M. MAITKE AND HIS WORKSHOPS. +
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" If you stop at Dijon, be sure and see ...
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ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOUKNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY . r
Vol. Vii. August 1, ' 1861. No. 42.
Vol . VII . August 1 , ' 1861 . No . 42 .
Lvi.—M. Maitke And His Workshops. +
LVI . —M . MAITKE AND HIS WORKSHOPS . _+
" If You Stop At Dijon, Be Sure And See ...
" If you stop at Dijon , be sure and see the ateliers of Monsieur Maitre ; _c ' est tout ce _qitfil y a de mieux organise" was an injunction _,
forcibly delivered to a traveller parting for France . _For _"which reason , among others , I alighted from the express-train which
whirls twice in every four-and-twenty hours past the ancient ital of Burgundy .
cap One who enters the gates of Dijon seems to pass through the magic portal of the Middle Ages . Neversurely , did any old town
, continue to turn up so many pointed roofs in contemptuous objection to the things that be ! It is not a house , or even a street
here and there nestling within its venerable precincts , but the whole town in which the people of to-day are living and working ,
which bears the cachet o £ the past . It did not even become an integral part of the kingdom of France until the reign of the sly King
X _/ Ouis the Eleventh , who got it from the Princess Marie , daughter of Charles the Bold of Burgundyby a process which appears to have
been was the evenl Duke y compounded Charles who of begg lays , ing so , important borrowing , a and part stealing in ct Quentin . That p
Durward , " to which novel , and to the drama so ably sustained by Mr . Charles KeanI refer my readers who may wish to refresh
their _memories on , the amiable monarch who possessed himself of this good town .
Dijon , clustered thickly round its churches and convents , with the Cathedral of St . Benigne standing out in the foreground to welcome
the traveller , appears to disdain any architecture more modern than that of the time of Louis the Fourteenth . The _j _^ i _^ _cipal street is
the liue Conde ; the churches date from the eleventh century ; St . Benigne is said to have preached the gospel and suffered martyrdom
in the year , of our Lord 178 . My readers will perceive that there is nothing of the " spirit of the age " in the appearance of the
place , yet here is located one of the most remarkable establishments of manufacturing France , which possesses a double interest ,
as showing on a comparatively small and singularly distinct scale , the progress of that idea of organization which is invading ( for
good or for evil ?) every department of human industry . I ask the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/1/
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