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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![greater attractions for tlie youthful engineer than liatin and Greek, and his allotted holiday task (devoirs). The writer of this has frequently heard him describe the wonder and delight with which he for the first time beheld (1784), on the quay of Rouen, the component parts of a huge steam-engine, just landed from Eng- land : “ When I am a man,” he said to himself, “ I will repair to the country where such machinery is made.” 15 Ecouis contains a remarkably line Gothic C/mrc/j built in the unusual form of a Greek cross, founded by Enguerrand de Marigny, the unfor- tunate minister and high treasurer of Philippe le Bel, unjustly condemned to death without trial at the instiga- tion of the succeeding king’s uncle Charles of Valois, and hung on the robbers’ gibbet of Montfaucon. His monument, set up in this church at a time when his innocence and worth were acknowledged, was destroyed at the Revolution. That of his brother. Archbishop of Rouen, is still sur- mounted by his effigy in white marble. He went as ambassador to Edward III. in 1342, “ and appeared at court in the guise of a warrior, not of a minister of peace. ” There are several other tombstones in the choir. Between Pontoise and Ecouis there is another road through Gisors, which, though a little longer than the pre- ceding, is taken by the malleposte. 18 Chars 1 . 18 Gisors J 13 Etrepagny. 13 Ecouis. in Route 5. A rapid ascent and descent carries the road across the industrious and picturesque vale of the Andelle, in the midst of which is 9 Fleury sur Andelle. About 10 m, N, E. of this, and 2 from Lions la Foret, arc the ruins of the Abbey of Mortimer, begun 1154 by Henry II. of England. The church is now pulled down; but some of the con- ventual buildings, in the style of transition from round to pointed including a fine chapter house (date 1174), remain. It was at Bourg- boudouin that Roland, the ex-minis- ter and Girondist, committed suicide, 1793. As soon as he heard of his wife’s death by the guillotine, he resolved not to survive her ; but unwilling to endanger the generous friends who had sheltered him in their house at Rouen, he took leave of them, and carrying a sword-stick in his hand set out on the road to Paris. When he had got thus far, he sat down under a tree and stabbed himself, leaving about his person a note, written by his own hand to this effect: “ Whoever you may be who find me lying here, treat my remains with re- spect. They are those of one who devoted his whole life to be useful, and who died as he lived, virtuous and unsullied. May my fellow ci- tizens embi'ace more humane sen- tunents ! When I heard of the death of my wife, I loathed a world stained with so many crimes.” He perished an instance of the miserable fate which unerringly awaits those who, either from good or evil motives, are the first to plunge a country into revolu- tion. 12 La Forge F6ret. From the brow of the steep hill leading down through deep cuttings into Rouen, a fine view is obtained of that city and the Seine. Tlie upper and lower roads from Paris unite in the suburb Eauplet. 11 Rouen ( Route 9.). ROUTE 11. THE SEINE. ST. GERMAIN TO ROUEN. The figures mark distances from place to place in French lieues = 2j Eng. m. From St. Germain to Rouen is 56 leagues, about 140 Eng. m. Steamers (Les Dorades and Les Etoiles) go daily in summer (from May to September inclusive), making the ascending voyage in 18 hours, the descending in 12. They mount no higher than Pecq (a suburb of St. Islirt ihe niloy (s* Route I Ihuoa I pf iJjf of iutli L< tie Peiluo JjJkiie,'’2 airorsinit aud n lai Bami, lie eicessire vini i lii livo, md tie id in^ dunavaseit IlissaajofiieSeiiie(&j« -fmihttiuiigdenoiis, is say pleasing, alt iiuaei tnnsett ^'•0tie mu,*] ‘^PWiiresgne, jjf tSStl; taifi ra, .'’’Kontj ^ies^Wei](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22022272_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
