Identifier: francefromseatos00riggrich (find matches)
Title: France from sea to sea
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Riggs, Arthur Stanley
Subjects: France -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pulpit, with a delicate stone canopy to give shelteralike from sun and rain. It is easy to see why St. Lois a joy to artists—the frowning cliff whence itlooks down the pretty little river Vire, the old houses,the steep streets, the delightful walks in every direc-tion through the verdant countryside. St. Los neighbor, Coutances, was also shuttle-cocked back and forth between French and English,and sacked, battered, and even burned three or fourtimes by the Huguenots. It stands upon a hill thatrises gently from the plain, and against the coolNorman sky its arrowy spires etch their slenderbodies as sharply as with acid; while below, theshapes of trees and houses blend in a harmonioustone-picture of gray and green. Besides its beau-tiful Gothic Cathedral, it has two other attractivechurches, St. Pierre and St. Nicolas, and some veryunusual houses like miniature castles, massive andsecret, with strong archways and slender stair-towers. On down the west coast of Normandy we come to (256)
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THE NORMAN COUNTRY _Avranches, one of the oldest towns in the province.From its height you can look across the bay to thatgreat abbey-fortress of Mont St. Michel, crowninga towering mass of granite, with houses clinging,limpet-fashion, below. It is one of the most remark-able sights in the world. The town originated withpeasants who fled before the raiding Northmen andtook shelter under the wing of the monks. The rockwould be as barren as Gibraltar, but that the GulfStream helps it support vegetable life fairly well;and in little terrace gardens flowers bloom brightlyagainst a background of fig, pine, cherry and cedartrees of considerable size. There are said to be over two hundred inhabitants,who live upon the visitors. No sooner do you stepwithin the gates than they swarm about you in abedlam that might have leaped out of a Cairenebazaar, snarling, quarreling, thrusting themselvesin your way and their trash in your hands, untilyou literally thrust them all aside and bolt up theone r

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