Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montréal
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
I have often remarked the sensibility of the common people of Spain to the charms of natural objects. The lustre of a star, the beauty or fragrance of a flower, the crystal purity of a fountain, will inspire them with a kind of political delight, and then, what euphonious words their magnificent language affords, with which to give utterance to their transports!
Washington Irving (1783–1859)
American author
“A Ramble Among the Hills”—Tales of the Alhambra (1829)


