Romantic Corsica, wanderings in Napoleon's isle; . talian architecture about them, though theeffect is somewhat spoiled by the blackish stone withwhich the majority of the houses are built. In the spacious market-place one comes back to thereal, idyllic life of the Corsican—the eternal politicaldiscussions, the saunter on the terrace of the church,from which a really marvellous view of the surroundingcountry can be obtained, the all-pervading dolce farniente in which the Corsican is such an adept. Butpicturesque Sart^ne has not always been so history is tragic. In and around the t
Romantic Corsica, wanderings in Napoleon's isle; . talian architecture about them, though theeffect is somewhat spoiled by the blackish stone withwhich the majority of the houses are built. In the spacious market-place one comes back to thereal, idyllic life of the Corsican—the eternal politicaldiscussions, the saunter on the terrace of the church,from which a really marvellous view of the surroundingcountry can be obtained, the all-pervading dolce farniente in which the Corsican is such an adept. Butpicturesque Sart^ne has not always been so history is tragic. In and around the town vendettahas raged as nowhere else in the island; hundreds ofSartfenese were, in the sixteenth century, carried off asslaves to Algeria. Mediterranean pirates have ravagedthe fertile district with fire and sword. But the mosttragic page of its story is that telling of the civil warwhich, for more than four years, raged within its Bourbonists of the Sainte Anne quarter and theLiberals, as they termed themselves, of the Borgo quarter.
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