CHATEAU DE LA FEE--KING RENE--THE MINIATURES--THE POST-OFFICE FUNCTIONARY--ORIGINALITY--THE ENGLISH BANK-NOTE--ST.

PORCHAIRE--THE DEAD CHILD--MONTIERNEUF--GUILLAUME GUY GEOFFROY--THOMAS A BECKET--CHOIR OF ANGELS--RELICS--THE ARMED HERMIT--A SAINT--THE REPUDIATED QUEEN--ELIONORE--THE BOLD PRIEST--LAY.
ONE of the most remarkable houses in Poitiers, of which not many ancient remain, is one now used as a school by the Christian Brothers.

It is in the Rue de la Prevote, close to the Place de la Pilori, and has been a prison.

The door and windows are finely ornamented, as is the whole facade, with curiously-carved figures and foliage.

Melusine, with her serpent's or fish's tail, and her glass and comb, appears amongst them--that inexplicable figure so frequently recurring in almost every part of France, and even yet requiring her riddle to be solved.