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HUGUENOT COLLEGE.

Calvary (Calvaire) stands in the centre of the ground. In the Huguenot end of the field, there is a pyramid to the memory of Chauvet, and near the Calvary are a few broken tombstones. Till these disappear from decay or surreptitious thefts, the Cemetery cannot be molested.

The Gardens, which the Huguenots acquired by enforced purchase on the 25th Jan., 1634, were situated close to the moat in the lower part of the town, just within the walls, and were not very extensive, but they were then, as now, charmingly wooded with chestnut trees. The gardens were wedge-shaped, and the broader end was scarcely a stone's throw from the door of the Protestant college in the Rue des Veaux, now Rue de l'Abreuvoir.

The gracious permission of their enemies was not of long duration.

The next year, 1635, the Dames Ursulines took possession of the Cemetery, after having been comfortably installed by Jean Martin Laubardemont of evil repute, in the roomy and desirable quarters of the Huguenot college.

From that time, persecuted and down-trodden, insulted even in death, the Huguenots took to burying their dead in their own houses under the stone floors and in their gardens.

The College at Loudun was founded about the 30th August, 1615, by right of an edict which granted the Protestants liberty to keep little private schools where the young might learn Greek and Latin.

The building, as it now stands, is not imposing. The Rue de l'Abreuvoir is very narrow, with a good many old houses on either side of the steep street. The old Cemetery was on the left hand at the foot, the College on the right a little way up the road, that is, looking downwards from the present Place du Palais. There is a very similar building opposite the College, which does not appear to have had any connection with it.

The house is built of great grey stones, and has on the inside a small courtyard, of which the western wing is ruined. The staircase has been pulled down for fire-wood, and two of the doors walled up.

A large covered entrance admits one into the courtyard, which is now a vegetable garden. The entrance is dilapidated and the room above it in ruins.

Formerly the building was much larger, extending on both sides of the "porte cochère." One part contained, it is said, the chapel. The right-hand wing is now an entirely new

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