"Saone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but little more than swung clear from Lyons—around the long curve where the Saone and the Rhone are united and the stream suddenly is doubled in size—than we were carried back to the very dawn of historic times. Before us, stretching away to the eastward, was the broad plain of Saint-Fons—once ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier
... having passed a delicious night without the city on a road that skirted the Rhone or the Saone, for I cannot remember which. On the other side were terraced gardens. It had been a very warm day; the evening was charming; the dew moistened the faded grass; a calm night, without a breeze; the air was cool ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson
... in forwarding this business. There are between forty and fifty thousand silk-looms actively employed. In the extent of its silk trade it is the first city in the world. Being located at the confluence of two important rivers, the Rhone and the Saone, the city has almost the advantage of a maritime port, besides which it has ample railroad connections. After a day's rest at Lyons, we will proceed on our journey by rail to the city of Marseilles, the first ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou |
