Putnam patriot., 1918-11-08
SIGHT SEEING
 IN FRANCE
Sergeant Kenneth Sharpe and Cornra des Visit Historic Old Chatea us and Churches.
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 .Aeross the bridge is the town of St Thibault. where we bought some post cards Then we continued throuqh the town and across the can al Du Eord This is a canal, CT one Of the many canals. which are loeat- ed all through France 4 great deal of transportation is carried on III this manner They are well built and form regular net work Across this canal is the town of St. Saturs and of course we had to stop and buy some more cards We also could buy chocolate here, all we wanted. This is peculiar thing. Here we can get hardly any, up there we could get all ws wanted.
 s'From St 4Atur we went through Psntenal at the foot of the hill and just the other side of the yiaduct anc then started up the road which wind' around to the top of the hill. Th' lead on both sides of the road Is GOV cred with vineyards and the people are just picking the grapes. w. would stop a minute and watch then and it wouldn't be long before the! would come over with a nice larg bunch for each of us Tbea we woul, TO on, stop again. get more grapes so that we were eating very nearly al the time while We were going up t the top. The view continually grey nore pretty and we were getting II ol the west side The first place N struck after going through the tow was the Porte Cecar on the north east side, from which we got the viey up and down the river and of th towns through which we had come My, but it was pretty sight Tn day had turned out splendidly. tn xun shining brightly We could se Cosne Tracy -Sancerre, where we lief the train. Pouilly, and our own camp We began counting the towns VI could see and the total from the hil was 36. Just think of 1t You cal imagine what beautiful view 1t was
 "From here we went up to the yer! top of the hill where the chauteal and the old town are located A par of the tower is locked, which con tains the stairs leading up to the top bat we went up into the other par which is more or less in ruins. It I round in shape and we got up into tn open interior by climbing up a ladde in what seemed to be the tlue of tn hreplace The whole tower Is bull ef rock. and from the interior WI could see way up to the roof and SCI the arched construction. l picked ul a chip of stone from the floor which am enclosing It is practically al flint or limestone over here. Besides rsing up in the tower We went dowr about 20 feet underneath into a smal dungeon where they said they used t' behead people We could see a star shaped stone in the center of the flool which we were told was the block,
 We tried to get into the chateau ts go up in the tower of t for a bet ter view. but it was closed up very tight. We went down into the towr again to the old church Practically all of the churches we have seen are very, very old, this one at Sancerr' dating back to the 10th century Wt thought we would like to go up in tho tower of it, so asked for the key al the priests house next door He was a fine old man who came out with the key, unlocked the tower door and went with us way up to the top, eN- plaining different things all the time.