Your residence at Mayence is too dull; Paris reclaims you; go there, it is my wish.
We staid a day at Manheim, and, on the fifth from our departure from Strasburgh, arrived at Mayence.
Mayence as a Roman colony was a military post of great importance, and the key to the fertile provinces watered by the Rhine.
The ancient cloister at Mayence dates from the mid-thirteenth century.
To his nephew he wrote: It was not right for Mayence to do a thing like that, but as it is done it will do no harm.
