Hand-book for travellers in France. Being a guide to Normandy, Brittany, the rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone and Garonne, the French Alps, Dauphiné, Provence and the Pyrenees : with descriptions of the principal routes, railways, the approaches to Italy, the chief watering places, etc / [Anon].
- John Murray
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hand-book for travellers in France. Being a guide to Normandy, Brittany, the rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone and Garonne, the French Alps, Dauphiné, Provence and the Pyrenees : with descriptions of the principal routes, railways, the approaches to Italy, the chief watering places, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MIBTORICAL MEDICAL P E E F A C E. The Hand-book for France is the result of four or five jour- nies undertaken at different times between 1830 and 184*1, and the editor has covered the ground with a network of routes described from personal observation, extending from Dunkirk to St. Jean de Luz; from Toulon and Hyeres to Brest; from Grenoble and the ^Grande Chartreuse through Aubenas and Aurillac to the Port de Venasque ; and from Cherbourg and Mt. St. Michel to Brian9011 and Embrun, and including the almost entire circuit of France. But in so vast a field many interstices have been left to be filled up by the best printed information; and that so meagre in some respects, so abun- dant and scattered in others, that the collecting and arrang- ing of the materials has been a work of very serious labour. The materials, indeed, for describing a large part of France are far more scanty than those which present themselves for Ger- many and Switzerland, and the writer may fairly say, that he has, in the following pages, laid down routes of which no ac- count is to be found in French guides. It would be unjust] to omit to mention the admirable guides of Vaysse de Villiers, from ■which he has derived essential information; but though they extend to nearly twenty volumes, they comprise only a small part of France, and only portions of their contents are calculated to interest English travellers. For their use this volume is com- piled; and if any French readers think fit to take it up, they must not be surprised to find many details well known to them, anti doubtless many errors, not a few of which will be equally discernible by the Editor’s own countrymen. He trusts that in the statement of facts he has avoided invidious comparisons, that he has set down nought in such a light as to cause prcju-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22022272_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
