Category: Travel Writing
Rambles in Normandy
_Un pays aimé_ is a good friend, indeed, to whom one may turn in time of strife, and none other than Normandy--unless it be Brittany--has proved itself a more safe and pleasant land for travellers.
Chapters
1. PART I.2. PART II.3. PART III.4. CHAPTER I.
_Un pays aimé_ is a good friend, indeed, to whom one may turn in time of strife, and none other than Normandy--unless it be Brittany--has proved itself a more safe and pleasant...
5. CHAPTER II.One of the joys of France to-day, as indeed it ever has been, is travel by road. The rail has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages, whereas the most luxurious trave...
6. CHAPTER III.No cutting of trees is allowed, except according to a prescribed plan; and, when a new road is cut through,--and those superlative roadways of France run straight as the crow fl...
7. CHAPTER IV.To those upon whom has fallen the desire to travel amid historic sights and scenes, no part of France offers so much that is so accessible, so economically covered, or as intere...
8. CHAPTER I.Gaul in the time of Cæsar included Normandy in its general scheme, as is shown by the ancient names,--that of the Lexovii, at Lisieux; the Bajocasses, at Bayeux; the Unelli of t...
9. CHAPTER II.“J’ai vu les champs de l’Helvétie, Et ses chalets et ses glaciers; J’ai vu le ciel de l’Italie Et Venise et ses gondoliers! En saluant chaque patrie Je me disais: aucun séjour N...
10. CHAPTER III.Whereas England is a country whose land is owned by a comparative few, France is owned by the many. Of its population of forty odd millions there are nearly six million land-own...
11. CHAPTER IV.The art and architecture of Normandy with respect to religious edifices, and not less with regard to its feudal châteaux, is of a peculiar variety, quite apart from the other ty...
12. CHAPTER V.The religious architecture of Normandy, from the tenth century onward, with regard to abbeys, cathedrals, and parish churches alike, was so abundant and splendid as to merit the...
13. CHAPTER I.Three great gateways to Paris, from England’s shores, lie through Normandy: via Cherbourg and the Cotentin, via Dieppe and the Pays de Caux, and via Havre and the Seine valley,...
14. CHAPTER II.Havre is one of those neglected tourist points through which travellers frantically rush _en route_ to--well, almost anywhere you like, Paris, Switzerland, or the Riviera. It is...
15. CHAPTER III.“Rouen, la ville aux vieilles rues, Aux vieilles tours, débris des races disparues, La ville aux cent clochers carillonnant dans l’air, Le Rouen des châteaux, des hôtels, des ba...
16. CHAPTER IV.Up the river from Pont de l’Arche the beauties of the Seine are truly irresistible to the true traveller of artistic proclivities. At every kilometre stone along its banks the v...
17. CHAPTER V.The busy little villages which lie in the course of the Eure from Pont de l’Arche to Louviers are unheard of in the school geographies and conventional guide-books. They have li...
18. CHAPTER VI.The whole coast-line northeast from Havre to the borders of Picardy is a delightful succession of villages and towns where the salt smell of the sea mingles with the odours of w...
19. CHAPTER VII.Westward of the mouth of the Seine is a little strip of coast-line which in a restricted sense may be said to be the resort of the Parisian world of fashion during the summer mo...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The Cotentin peninsula is a great jutting finger of land which runs out into that part of the Atlantic which Frenchmen know as La Manche, and which Anglo-Saxons know as the Engl...
21. CHAPTER IX.Indeed, save for the fact that wine is not grown in Normandy, the whole region is given over to the growing of much the same crops, which seem to thrive in so many parts elsewhe...