Map is taken from Cesar-Francois Cassini's Carte de Cassini (1789)
Adeline and Peter arrive in Thiers following her final escape from the Abbey of St. Clair. Oddly, a trip that should have taken the pair at least four days to complete takes them only "several hours," and is made to seem tranquil and easy. Upon their arrival at Thiers, Adeline once again appears on the map and, for the most part, stays there.
For Peter, Thiers is a familiar, friendly, nostalgic place. He assures Adeline that "when once I get to Thiers, I know it well enough, for I have gone it many a time in my younger days, and any body will tell us the way there" (234). Once there, they "refresh themselves," rest their horse, and set forward through "rich plains of the Lyonnois" with a "view of he distant alps, whose majestic heads, seeming to prop the vault of heaven, filled her mind with sublime emotions" (235).
For Peter, Thiers is a familiar, friendly, nostalgic place. He assures Adeline that "when once I get to Thiers, I know it well enough, for I have gone it many a time in my younger days, and any body will tell us the way there" (234). Once there, they "refresh themselves," rest their horse, and set forward through "rich plains of the Lyonnois" with a "view of he distant alps, whose majestic heads, seeming to prop the vault of heaven, filled her mind with sublime emotions" (235).
