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

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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$Ion, fitted up by poor Mademoiselle, during the time she was banished to her estate at Eu by the tyrant Louis XIV., for refusing to marry the pa- ralytic and imbecile king of Portugal. Louis Philippe has restored it, and ornamented it with pictures of the events of her life. Treport, the port of Eu, 3 m. dis- tant, is a fishing village of 2,265 inhabitants, having an old Church with a fine portal. It is supposed to be the ulterior portus of Julius Cassar, There remain to be noticed at Eu the effigies of the Due Henri de Guise Le Balafre, murdered at Blois, and of his wife Catherine de Cleves in the Eglise du College, originally of the Jesuits, who were established at Eu by le Balafre. The church built out of the ruins of the old castle, as well as the monuments, were raised at her expense; they are rich in marble, but of no value as works of art. He is represented in armour, she in ruff and farthingale ; there are duplicate effigies of both attended by figures of Prudence, Strength, Faith, and Charity; Gillot was the sculptor. From the pulpit of this church Bourdalouo preached his first sermon. On the Bresle, close to the palace, is a mill for making sea biscuits, established by an En- glishman. 16 Valines. 18 Abbeville (R. 2.). ROUTE 21, BOUEN TO AI.EN9ON BY BKBNAY, BROG- BIE, AND SEEZ. 144 kilom. = 89J Eng. m. 40 Brionnc (R. 23.). > 15 Bernay—(/an. La Poste : Lion d’Or), a manufacturing town of 6,600 inhab. It once possessed an impor- tant abbey, founded by Judith, wife of Richard II. duke of Normandy; the Church of which, now converted into warehouses, is one of the oldest Norman (Romanesque) buildings ex- isting in Normandy, having been begun in the early part of the 11th century. It is large in its dimensions and perfectly simple in its style: plain square piers support equally plain circular arches. The columns at- tached to the piers are carved, and one is inscribed “ Isambardus me fecit.” The choir ends in an apse, and there is one in each transept. “ The dome vaulting in circular courses over the isles is exceedingly curious.” 11 Broglie. The Church is an ancient and sin- gular building: along its W. front runs a ^ow of interlacing circular arches, one side of the nave rests on very massive piers; the other is modernised, the piers pared down, and pointed arches substituted for round ones. The large and plain Chateau near this is the family resi- dence of the Due de Broglie, ex- minister, and one of the most virtuous, enlightened, and eminent statesmen in France. 16 Monnai. 14 Gace. 22 Nonant. 12 Seez {Inn: La Come), a poor little city with a population of only 5500, owing that title to the posses- sion of a Cathedral, a fine edifice, the remarkable features of which are, the porch, 47 ft. deep, under the AV. front, flanked by 2 spires; the nave, 80 ft. high, of elegant early pointed Gothic of the 13th century ; the windows are double lancet and very elegant. The choir and transepts are in the decorated style of the end of the 14th century. A cathedral was built here in 1055, but no part of it exists in the present one, judging from the style. The town was burnt down in 1150 and 1353, and probably the cathedral also. 21 Alenfon (R. 35). VetKh''®’'' lorU w CiE' jt aide'll 01 Bt josmtt yt ] ai( ritfeifli _ ll{ Sene, and Eoao runs I t«yfldb;tfcli9's(p.i2.), 1 iiniiij ontlul tie forest of Ron- It liGuild Coinonne; Hence by 11 Rooaiii (R. 12.) and near the Bsit of Bobert de Diable to J®iSe (j. 52], ibcre it quits the ^ fee, spniitj ina fc branch; iMtartttmtollie rt,i IsrVJw) ' ^W,novoftotlei, “pc? .... ! I;$