Normandy - G. E. Mitton

Pen and brush are both necessary in the attempt to give an impression of a country; word-painting for the brain, colour for the eye. Yet even then there must be gaps and a sad lack of completeness, which is felt by no one more than by the coadjutors who have produced this book. There are so many aspects under which a country may be seen. In the case of Normandy, for instance, one man looks for magnificent architecture alone, another for country scenes, another for peasant life, and each and all will cavil at a book which does not cater for their particular taste. Cavil they must; the artist and author here have tried—knowing well how far short of the ideal they have fallen—to show Normandy as it appeared to them, and the matter must be coloured by their personalities. Thus they plead for leniency, on the ground that no one person’s view can ever exactly be that which satisfies another.

G. E. MITTON.

[CHAPTER I]
	PAGE
In General	1
[CHAPTER II]
The Norman Dukes	18
[CHAPTER III]
The Mighty William	34
[CHAPTER IV]
A Mediæval City	56
[CHAPTER V]
Caen	79
[CHAPTER VI]
Falaise	93
[CHAPTER VII]
Bayeux and the Smaller Towns	112
[CHAPTER VIII]
The Famous Tapestry	129
[CHAPTER IX]
An Abbey on a Rock	140
[CHAPTER X]
The Stormy Côtentin	155
[CHAPTER XI]
Dieppe and the Coast	163
[CHAPTER XII]
Up the Seine	182

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.	A Norman Peasant	[Frontispiece]
		FACING PAGE
2.	Cherry Blossom	[6]
3.	The Harbour at Low Tide, Granville	[8]
4.	A Festival Cap	[10]
5.	A Seaside Resort	[12]
6.	Grandmother	[14]
7.	An Approach to the Abbey, Mont St Michel	[22]
8.	Entrance to Mont St Michel	[28]
9.	A Street, Mont St Michel	[32]
10.	Harbour of Fécamp	[36]
11.	A Road near Rouen	[44]
12.	Near Pont-Audemer	[46]
13.	Old Houses, Rouen	[58]
14.	A Street in Rouen	[62]
15.	The Towers of St Ouen	[64]
16.	An Hotel Courtyard, Rouen	[72]
17.	The Milk Carrier	[84]
18.	A Street Vendor, Falaise	[94]
19.	A Little Norman Girl	[96]
20.	Rural Scene	[102]
21.	Starting for the Washing-Shed	[104]
22.	Lace Making	[110]
23.	An Ancient Inn Yard	[114]
24.	Timber-frame House, Lisieux	[120]
25.	Valley of the Rille	[122]
26.	St Lo	[124]
27.	A Street in Granville	[126]
28.	The Spinning Wheel	[134]
29.	Mont St Michel—Sunset	[142]
30.	La Porte du Roi	[144]
31.	The Street, Mont St Michel	[146]
32.	A View from the Top of Mont St Michel	[148]
33.	A Holiday Head-dress	[156]
34.	Cherbourg	[160]
35.	The Gateway, Dieppe	[164]
36.	The Quay, Dieppe	[168]
37.	Fishermen at Fécamp	[174]
38.	Havre	[176]
39.	Quai Sainte Catherine, Honfleur	[182]
40.	Caudebec-en-Caux	[186]

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS