TRAVELLER'S GUIDE

THROUGH

FRANCE;

CONTAINING A

GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL AND PICTURESQUE DESCRIPTION

OF

EVERY REMARKABLE PLACE

IN THAT KINGDOM;

With Notices of the Climate, natural Productions, Anti-
quities, Curiosities, Trade and Manufactures: together
with Sketches of Manners, Society and Customs; in-
cluding detailed Accounts of all the principal Cities,
particularly Lyons, Marseilles,, Bordeaux, Toulouse,
Montpellier, Tours, Rouen, etc. etc., Visits to Hyères,
Nice, Bagnères and Barrèges, and Excursions on the
Rhone, Garonne, and Loire:

With an exact Itinerary of Distances in Posts and
English Miles,

AND INDICATION OF THE PRINCIPAL INNS.

Together with useful Hints and Advice to the_conti-
nental Traveller, and a comparative Table of English
and French Weights and Measures;

BY COXE;

With considerable corrections and additions; also aug-
mented by a Tour through Auvergne, Britanny, and
various other parts of the Kingdom, not in the London
edition of this Work.

AT THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERM
LIBRARY, N.° 18, RUE

1819.

NISH

INTRODUCTION.

THE HE kingdom of France, once more returned within its ancient limits, is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south, by the Mediterranean and Pyrenees; or the east, by Savoy, Switzerland, and Germany; and on the north, by Belgium, and the English Channel. It extends from about the 42d to near the 51st degree of north latitude; and from about the 7th degree of longitude, west from Paris, to about the 5th on the east being in length from N. to S. about 600 English miles, or in breadth from W. to E. about 560. Its extent may be computed at 148,840 square miles.

Divisions.-France is divided into eighty-six departments, which, with the ancient provinces, and principal towns, are as follows.

Ancient Provinces. Departments. Chief Towns.

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Champagne..

Mézières.
Troyes.
Chaumont,'

Bar-sur-Ornain.

Lorraine.

Alsace.

Perche...

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Franche-Comté.D.,

Marne
Ardennes..
Aube...

Haute Marne..

Meuse...

Moselle
Meurthe...

Vosges..

Haut-Rhine

Metz.

Nancy.
Epinal.

Colmar.
Bas-Rhin.. Strasbourg.
Ille et Villaine. Rennes.
Côtes du Nord. Saint-Brieux.
Finistère... Quimper.
Morbihan.
Vannes.

Loire Inférieu. Nantes.
Sarthe.
Le Mans.
Mayenne. Laval.
Mayen.et Loir. Angers.
Indre et Loire. Tours.
Loiret...

Eure et Loire, Chartres.
Loire et Cher. Blois.

Indre.

Cher.

Corrèze
Allier,

......

Haute Vienne. Limoges.
Limosin..

Creusc V

Orléans.enc

Châteauroux.
Bourges.

Niévre.. 7. Nevers. But

Auxerre.

Yonne.
Côte-d'Or..

Dijon.
Saone et Loire Macon.
Ain,....... Bourg.

Haute-Saone.. Vesoul. 54

Doubs....

Besancon.
Lons-le-Saulnier.

.....

Jura...
Vendée

Heati

Fontenay le Peuple.
Deux Sèvres.. Niort.
Vienne.... Poitiers.

Gueret.

Tulle.

teran

Moulinssila

Departments. Chief Towns.
Charente Infer, Saintes.
Charente.. Angoulême.
Puy-de-Dôme, Clermont.
Cantal
St. Flour.
Lyons.

Rhône

Loire

Isère.

Hautes-Alpes. Gap.
Drôme.

Dordogne.
Gironde..

Lot et Garonne Agen.

Cahors.

Rhodez.

Lot,.
Aveyron.....
Gers.
Landes..
Hautes Pyrén. Tarbes.
Bass,Pyrénées. Pau.
Arriége....... Tarascon.
Pyrén.-Orient. Perpignan.
Haute Garonne Toulouse.
Aude...... Carcassonne.
Tarn...

Gard..

Montbrison.
Grenoble.

Valence.

Périgueux.
Bordeaux.

Castres.

Nîmes.

Lozère... Mende.
Ardèche...... Privas.
Haute Loire... Le Puy.
Heraut....... Montpellier

Auch.

Mont de Marsan.

Bou, du Rhône Aix.
Basses Alpes.. Digne.
Var...... Toulon.

Vaucluse, with

the Bouches Avignon.
da Rhône.

Climate, etc.-The climate of so extensive a country as France, may be expected to be various. In general it is far more clear and serene than that of England: but the northern provinces are exposed