Note 640 — Chapter XV · THE SUBURBS OF GENEVA ARE DEMOLISHED AND THE ADVERSARIES MAKE READY. (September 1534 to January 1535.)
Reading edition
‘Great suburbs at one time surrounded the city, not less beautiful with churches and houses than with well-watered meadows and pleasant gardens; which feasted the eyes and the heart still more.’ The lines from which our extract is taken are in Gautier’s manuscript. He ascribes them to an anonymous writer who had seen the suburbs.