Quebec City: closer than
Paris, almost as French

IF YOU are one of the many
who tried to get a seat sale
air ticket to Europe and
didn’t, read on, for there is
an alternative — Quebec Ci-
ty. Agreed, it’s not Paris,
but then you won’t be pay-
ing Paris prices nor laid low
_by crushing jet lag.

Quebec City is old, oozing with
charm, wonderful restaurants lurk
around every corner, the locals not
only speak the language you know
a few words of, they talk, and will
talk, English as well, which is more
than you can say for Parisians
when they’re being painful.

For children of all ages it’s
a wonderful history lesson, the
cradle of French civilization in the
new world and the only walled and
fortified city in North America.

Today it’s a French enclave in a
largely English-speaking country;
of course if Wolfe had lost his bat-
tle here, history might have been
‘reversed, and Canada would be a
French-speaking country with

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English enclaves. Some think
that’s what the federal government
is working on now, but that’s
another story.

If you can, stay at the Chateau
Frontenac, which dominates the
city, as the Empress holds centre

stage over Victoria. This majestic
pile was named after a governor of
New France, Count Louis de
Baude de Frontenac ct de Palluau
who in 1690 addressed a British
soldicr with a surrender order:
“Teil your general he will receive
his answer from the mouth of my
cannon.”’

British soldier: ‘Okay, guv.”’

These days only the location is
menacing, a commanding position
overlooking the lower town and St.
Lawrence. At the door is a
funicular railway leading down to
the old town and the Dufferin Ter-
race — as wide as the decks on
Queen Mary, someone once said
— where on summer nights crowds
walk the immense wooden plat-
form that clings to the rock.

For half the price, however, you
can get a decent room in any of the
dozen or so guest houses just a few
steps from the Frontenac. You'll
find them around the Jardin de
Gouverneur, site of the statue of
Wolfe and Montcalm, including
Au Manoir St-Genevieve.

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