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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 1

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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The Monastier, the Donkey, and the Pack Saddle.

Robert Lewis Stevenson spent a month in Le Monastier. The town is notable for the making of lace, for drunkenness and for unparalleled political dissension. A traveler of his sort was a thing hitherto unheard of in that district. Everyone was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger.

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