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  A MOTOR-FLIGHT
  THROUGH FRANCE

[Illustration: CHAUVIGNY: RUINS OF CASTLE]




  A MOTOR-FLIGHT
  THROUGH FRANCE

  BY
  EDITH WHARTON

  ILLUSTRATED

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
  1908




  COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
  CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

  Published October, 1908

  [Illustration]




CONTENTS


  PART I

  CHAPTER                                                           PAGE
    I. BOULOGNE TO AMIENS                                              1

   II. BEAUVAIS AND ROUEN                                             15

  III. FROM ROUEN TO FONTAINEBLEAU                                    24

   IV. THE LOIRE AND THE INDRE                                        34

    V. NOHANT TO CLERMONT                                             48

   VI. IN AUVERGNE                                                    56

  VII. ROYAT TO BOURGES                                               66


  PART II

    I. PARIS TO POITIERS                                              73

   II. POITIERS TO THE PYRENEES                                       95

  III. THE PYRENEES TO PROVENCE                                      117

   IV. THE RHONE TO THE SEINE                                        143


  PART III

  A FLIGHT TO THE NORTH-EAST                                         172




ILLUSTRATIONS


  Chauvigny: Ruins of castle                                Frontispiece
                                                             Facing page
  Arras: Hôtel de Ville                                                2

  Amiens: West front of the Cathedral                                  6

  Amiens: Ambulatory of the Cathedral                                 10

  Beauvais: West front of the Cathedral                               14

  Rouen: Rue de l’Horloge                                             18

  Rouen: The façade of the Church of Saint-Maclou                     22

  Rouen: Monument of the Cardinals of Amboise in the Cathedral        26

  Le Petit Andely: View of the town and Château Gaillard              30

  Orléans: General view of the town                                   38

  Nohant: Château of George Sand                                      42

  Nohant: Garden pavilion                                             44

  Clermont-Ferrand: Notre-Dame du Port                                50

  Orcival: The church                                                 62

  Moulins: Place del’Hôtel-de-Ville and the Jacquemart tower          70

  Bourges: Apse of the Cathedral                                      74

  Château of Maintenon                                                76

  Neuvy Saint-Sépulcre: Church of the Precious Blood                  84

  Neuvy Saint-Sépulcre: Interior of the church                        88

  Poitiers: Baptistery of St. John                                    90

  Poitiers: The Church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande                        92

  Angoulême: Façade of the Cathedral                                  96

  Thiers: View of the town from the Pont de Seychalles                98

  Bordeaux: Church of The Holy Cross                                 100

  Bétharram: The bridge                                              106

  Argelès-Gazost: The old bridge                                     108

  Salies de Béarn: View of old town                                  110

  St. Bertrand-de-Comminges: Pier of the Four Evangelists in the
      Cloister                                                       116

  Albi: General view of the Cathedral                                118

  Albi: Interior of the Cathedral                                    120

  Nîmes: The Baths of Diana--public gardens                          122

  Carcassonne: The Porte de l’Aude                                   124

  Saint-Remy: The Mausoleum                                          126

  St. Maximin: Choir stalls in the church                            130

  Toulon: The House of Puget                                         134

  Orange: The Arch of Marius                                         136

  Grignan: Gate of the castle                                        138

  Valence: The Cathedral                                             142

  Vienne: General view of the town                                   146

  Brou: Tomb of Margaret of Austria in the church                    150

  Dijon: Mourners on the tomb of Jean Sans Peur                      154

  Avallon: General view of the town                                  158

  Vézelay: Narthex of the Church of the Madeleine                    160

  Sens: Apse of the Cathedral                                        168

  Noyon: Hôtel de Ville                                              186

  St. Quentin: Hôtel