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Chevalier House:
Many visitors enjoy'boat trips on the St. Lawrence or a cruise into the beautiful Saguenay River, 120 miles downstream. Also in the harbor area are to be found some of the city's oldest edifices such as the Chevalier house, the Notre Dame des Victoires Chapel, built in 1668, and the Place Royale, as well as some of the narrowest streets, such as Sault au Matelot and Sous le Cap streets.Other special attractions of this special square are Restaurant In Den Vos (To the Foi), a very good place with moderate prices, given personal charm by its proprietress-cook Denise Navarre, and Roi d'Espagne, an extremely cheerful sandwich-and-beer establishment made homelike by a huge central fireplace. In the big, popular bracket, consider the Cafe Metropole, in the note! of that name, and the Taverne Palace, on the street Floor of the Palace Hotel. Each is a cafe-chantant, with a stage on which entertainers play, sing and dance with tireless gusto. For a surprise, try lunching in the colossal department store called Au Ban Marche, on Place Rogier. You'll eat well and cheaply in its enormous quadrilateral restaurant (around a great central well), still better, but less cheaply, in its Rotisserie. (For dollar meals and under, posted menus may be studied outside many modest establishments.) Finally, for summer restaurants, you may drive to the pleasant Chalet de k Foret in the near-by Bois de la Cambre or (8 miles) to the Chateau de Groenendael in the Foret de Soignes, southeast of the city. In a different direction, due south of Brussels (6 miles) is the Auberge du Chevalier in a house of Old Brussels that once stood near the Grand' Place but was demolished, transported and rebuilt here. It serves now as restaurant for those who visit the Chateau de Beersel, and its fare is wonderful, the most celebrated item being Entrec6te Chevalier, with a taste-titillating sauce.
There are also notable examples of with an atrium (an interior court surrounded 1$ rooms). Some of these are of relatively ancie construction, such as the House with the Wood Partition, the Samnite House, and the House -5^51 Neptune and Amphitrite. Of unusual design £jt(,er the great villas in the southern part of the ci including the House of Argo, the House of t Hostelry, the House of the Mosaic Atrium, a the House of the Deer. In these houses the t ditional plan is modified. The peristilia (cole naded courtyards), the gardens, reception haj and other rooms were oriented toward the sot in order to take advantage of the view towa the sea.
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