Chapter I: Preface: TO

"_TRAVELLING EDITION._"

In issuing the Travelling Edition of "Normandy Picturesque," the publishers deem it right to state that the body of the work is identical with the Christmas Edition; but that the APPENDIX contains additional information for the use of travellers, some of which is not to be found in any Guide, or Handbook, to France.

The descriptions of places and buildings in Normandy call for little or no alteration in the present edition, excepting in the case of one town, concerning which the Author makes the following note:--

"The traveller who may arrive at Pont Audemer this year, with
'_Normandy Picturesque_' in his hand, will find matters strangely
altered since these notes were written; he will find that a railway
has been driven into the middle of the town, that many old houses
have disappeared, that the inhabitants have left off their white
caps, and have given up their hearts to modern ways.

"Such changes have come rapidly upon Pont Audemer, but we must not,
in consequence, alter our description of it; for the old houses and
the old customs are dear memories, and the more worth recording
because the reality has faded before our eyes."

_London, May, 1870._

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAP. I.--ON THE WING 1

" II.--PONT AUDEMER 13

" III.--LISIEUX 35

" IV.--CAEN--DIVES 51

" V.--BAYEUX 83

" VI.--ST. LO--COUTANCES--GRANVILLE 109

" VII.--AVRANCHES--MONT ST. MICHAEL 135

" VIII.--VIRE--MORTAIN--FALAISE 162

" IX.--ROUEN 185

" X.--THE VALLEY OF THE SEINE 217

" XI.--ARCHITECTURE AND COSTUME 243

" XII.--THE WATERING PLACES OF NORMANDY 265