Note 19 — Chapter XVII · THE REVELS OF TRINQUETAILLE (A REMINISCENCE OF ALPHONSE DAUDET)

Les Aliscamps, the famous burying-ground of the Romans. In the old pagan days it was said that this wonderful necropolis made Arles, the queen of cities, more opulent beneath her soil than above. Here the great Romans in the time of Augustus and Constantine regarded it as their privilege to be buried.—C. E. M.