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Forty Favorite Cities:
The main ingredients of Italy's unsurpassable allure—some of them anyway—have been touched on in the opening paragraphs of this chapter and approximately forty favorite cities and communities will be mentioned under the hotel section below. It is, of course, impossible to catalog here even a reasonable fraction of all the conspicuous wonders of Italy, but I can perhaps do a service by calling attention to some of the inconspicuous wonders.Southwestward: Orleans, the Maid's triumph city, with Blois and Tours beyond the Loire chateaux (See Number 6 in Special Interests); gracious cities of cathedral appeal, meaning Poitiers, Angouleme and Perigueux; the Pyrenean flanks, from Biarritz to Perpignan, with a chain of links like Bayonne, Lourdes, Toulouse of the troubadours; and towered Carcassonne, which has been a world favorite ever since the old chanson-nier, Gustave Nadaud, popularized it with a plaintive ballad. Southeastward is the Rhone Valley, with Lyon, Orange, Avignon, Aries and Nimes, the last four places being old Roman cities that now are French.
In 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession (1741-1748), when Britain was ranged with Austria against France and Prussia, there took place another Jacobite rising, known as "The Forty-five." What distinguished it from its predecessor was that The Fifteen had organization but no leader, while The Forty-five had no organization but a leader in Prince Charles Edward, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of history and romance.
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