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This book is not a guide. It is an attempt to convey by pictures anddescription a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.

The route described could, however, be followed without covering the sameground for more than five or six miles, and anyone choosing to do thiswould find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery thatthe province possesses.

As a means of reviving memories of past visits to Normandy, I may perhapsventure to hope that the illustrations of this book—as far as thereproductions are successful—may not be ineffectual.

GORDON HOME

EPSOM, October 1905

CONTENTS

MONT ST MICHEL FROM THE CAUSEWAY

ON THE ROAD BETWEEN CONCHES AND BEAUMONT-LE-ROGERThis is typical of the poplar-bordered roads of Normandy.

THE CHATEAU GAILLARD FROM THE ROAD BY THE SEINEThe village of Le Petit Andely appears below the castle rock, and ispartly hidden by the island. The chalk cliffs on the left often looklike ruined walls.

A TYPICAL REACH OF THE SEINE BETWEEN ROUEN AND LE PETIT ANDELYOn one side great chalk cliffs rise precipitously, and on theother are broad flat pastures.

THE CHURCH AT GISORS, SEEN FROM THE WALLS OF THE NORMAN CASTLE

THE TOUR DE LA GROSSE HORLOGE, ROUENIt is the Belfry of the City, and was commenced in 1389.

THE CATHEDRAL AT ROUENShowing a peep of the Portail de la Calende, and some of the quainthouses of the oldest part of the City.

Very large ants, magpies in every meadow, and coffee-cups without handles,but of great girth, are some of the objects that soon become familiar tostrangers who wander in that part of France which was at one time as muchpart of England as any of the counties of this island. The ants and thecoffee-cups certainly give one a sense of bei

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