There are besides maisons de refuge or cottages, at a distance of one league from each other, wherein are stationed persons to give assistance and food to travellers, or passengers who may be detained by the snow storms.

This inn was formerly one of those small châteauxmore correctly termed maisons fortes, or manorswhich sprang up all over France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

VILLAGE, m., assemblage de maisons mains considérable qu'une ville.

In the environs there is abundance of maisons de plaisance.