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
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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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