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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.