Map is taken from Cesar-Francois Cassini's Carte de Cassini (1789)
Adeline's journey to Montpellier is a turning point in her individual development. She equates this water journey with a previous one: sailing across the Mediterranean "brought to her recollection her voyage up the Rhone, when seeking refuge from the terrors of the Marquis de Montalt, she so anxiously endeavoured to anticipate her future destiny. She then, as now, had watched the fall of evening and the fading prospect, and she remembered what a desolate feeling had accompanied the impression which those objects made. She had then no friends--no asylum--no certainty of escaping the pursuit of her enemy. Now she had found affectionate friends--a secure retreat--and was delivered from the terrors she then suffered" (294).
The party sails through the Gulf of Lyons and "after a pleasant voyage of a few days," they land in Languedoc (the region that contains the city of Montpellier). They stay at an inn in a small costal town "situated at the foot of a woody eminence, ont he right overlooking the sea, and on the left the rich plains of Languedoc" (296).
Though the travelers' entrance into Montpellier is tranquil, their discovery of Louis' connection to Theodore, and of his condemned state makes this location a site of shocking grief. The party decides to depart Montpellier suddenly to assist Theodore where he is imprisoned in Vaceau.
The departure from Montpellier towards Vaceau contrasts sharply with the "pleasant voyage" to arrive there: "the journey was a silent one; each individual of the party endeavoured, in consideration of each other, to suppress the expression of grief, but was unable to do more" (306).
The party sails through the Gulf of Lyons and "after a pleasant voyage of a few days," they land in Languedoc (the region that contains the city of Montpellier). They stay at an inn in a small costal town "situated at the foot of a woody eminence, ont he right overlooking the sea, and on the left the rich plains of Languedoc" (296).
Though the travelers' entrance into Montpellier is tranquil, their discovery of Louis' connection to Theodore, and of his condemned state makes this location a site of shocking grief. The party decides to depart Montpellier suddenly to assist Theodore where he is imprisoned in Vaceau.
The departure from Montpellier towards Vaceau contrasts sharply with the "pleasant voyage" to arrive there: "the journey was a silent one; each individual of the party endeavoured, in consideration of each other, to suppress the expression of grief, but was unable to do more" (306).
