[19] 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.
[20] _Mireille_ was crowned by the Academy, and the poet received a
prize of ten thousand francs.
[21] For Provençal text _see_ p. 332.
[22] For Provençal text _see_ p. 334.
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