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 mile from Paris he is invested with the majesty and robes of St. Charles, and then, and not till then, is he crowned in Paris. It was likewise near the city of Remis, that St. Dionysius was beheaded, at a distance from the town twice or thrice as great as that from Prague to the gallows belonging to Prague. They say that after his head was cut off St. Dionysius took his head and carried it to this church of the Mother of God, where he was finally buried.

On the morrow, Sunday, we travelled eleven leagues from this city to a village called Villa Beate Virginis, “the village of the Mother of God,” (Notre Dame de Liesse?). And we crossed a stream called Sána, five miles from Remis; and this river runs to Paris. Further on we passed a handsome