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Joan of Arc's house at Rouen, By S. Prout.
NORMANDY PICTURESQUE.
BY
HENRY BLACKBURN,
AUTHOR OF 'TRAVELLING IN SPAIN,' 'THE PYRENEES,''ARTISTS AND ARABS,' ETC.
Travelling Edition.
WITH
APPENDIX OF ROUTES AND LIST OF WATERING-PLACES.
LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, SON, & MARSTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.
1870.
London:
Printed by William Clowes and Sons,
Stamford Street & Charing Cross.
PREFACE
to
"TRAVELLING EDITION."
In issuing the Travelling Edition of "Normandy Picturesque," thepublishers deem it right to state that the body of the work is identicalwith the Christmas Edition; but that the Appendix containsadditional information for the use of travellers, some of which is notto be found in any Guide, or Handbook, to France.
The descriptions of places and buildings in Normandy call for little orno alteration in the present edition, excepting in the case of onetown, 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 strangelyaltered since these notes were written; he will find that a railwayhas been driven into the middle of the town, that many old houseshave disappeared, that the inhabitants have left off their whitecaps, 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 andthe old customs are dear memories, and the more worth recordingbecause the reality has faded before our eyes."
London, May, 1870.