Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04
FROM LA BELLE FRANCE.
THE ROMEs, FIsLDS, SKY AND
CATTLE or NORMASDY.



Correspondence to the GLoEk-RkPUBIIC
RoUEN, Sept H. All that poets have
sung of the beauty, ali that writers have
pennei of the interest in Normandy will be
readily accepted by one who has Tor
month dwelt her coast There is yet q
closer, or at least more attractive chronicle
of this favored section of France rendered
by those great artists who have found such
de light in her charms. Through their labor
of lovJ, even in our far-away homes, we are
in some degree familiar with life and nature
in Normandy. 10 these faithful recorders
mu { add my mite of testimony as to the
absolute truth ol their works. Milias Bre.
ton and Van Marke have gracefully and
earnestly placed tho world on familiar
terms with the people, the homes, the fields,
the sky and the cattle of Normandy. When
in Normandy there is but one other p.ac, in
France that YOU might exchange 1t for
and that Is the wild, rugged coast Of Brit
tany There tho charm does not cease;
whether resting in the quiet hamlet Of Les
Petite Dales, rambling through the ruined
abbey of Nalmont, studying the relics in
the museum of Fecamp, drinking-on the
very spot whee for centuries the air has
been conscious of its spiced aromatic de.
licious Benedictine, visiting in the early
morning, the sunny afternoon or by moon.
light the grand old cathedral at Rouen.
These pl assures only rival each other, aud
cannot suffer by any com parison.
Les Petite Dalles and Grande Dalles are
two seaside resorts of comparatively recent
popularity not yet uncomfortably fashion
able. These little hamlets. with their Que
pretentious hotel and their many pic.ur-
esque cottages, are snugly nestled on small
pebblel beaches between immense jutting
palisades of white and red chalk forma-
tions. These towering cliffs make brave
appearance from the channel. When the out
line of those extending further north are first
discerned, it may he easily mistaken for the
castle walls of some feudal home-in a mo-
ment, as Others are seen, 1t presents an
array Of rong defensive works-soon the
red and white layers of chalk become visi-
Die, and the deep rich covering of living
green, such as palisades are rarely spread
with and the coast OF France is Identified
these abrupt SUBMITS present a bulwark in-
deed against which the sea has moaned for
ages, and which the brave fishermen know
To he more pitiless than the Storm
At the little hotel, accommodating about
one hundred beside our small party of Eng
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