Show I 1 NEW i it 14 A 7 T A smile from t proposed canal route in france prepared prepare d by the tho nation national society a U 6 Es C service 10 french cities bordeaux T TO and carcassonne assonne the former a great port and the latter a sleepy ancient inland are literally in to the way of tho the canal which france Is planning to dig from the atlantic ocean to the mediterranean M neon sea thus affording a new waterway to the mediterranean from the west bordeaux n will ill be the atlantic tir minus MIDUS of the canal which will in elude 1 lions of the baronne garonne river e r and a ad the canal C a n a 1 du d u midi 1 ledl velch vm was s alin b built lit in lg S 1 1 T the b e canal will about miles long and will cost approximately bordeaux Is seldom in the he held heid id lines in peace times but let paris parts be threatened from the north or the cast east and bordeaux would doubtless resume its old place in the spotlight during the franco prussian war when the enemy occupied paris and agian og aln during the early days of the arnorld tt orld war before the germans had been stopped in their initial rush on the french capital the of the government was mas hastily transferred to the great commercial city on the left bank of the a Car oarie at the tirre of the trench re resolution too the giron diets used as gieir chief headquarters geography Is delux trump caril card not only in time of war wor but in time of peace pence as w u ell a seaport the city Is CO 60 miles from open sea oa on a aher that pr provides adequate docking facilities but Is still not deep enough for warship of heany hwy draft A few bir eq judi clouspy eura suni across the channel would block bloch everything emyt hinc else at any tiny time desired at down donn in the south southwest nest r pirt of fr prince frince ince the city has prospered almost undisturbed since it ert came into prominence as the capital of Aqui aquitante tants secondi of the romans the yanks remember bordeaux bordeaux Is largely terra niti nit i to tie tourist none of the large lame transatlantic 11 lines nes from north america an erica terminates here a nl though there are twiny companies pa riles those connecting trance ranee with south Ani america erlea nor Is it on any heally traveled route to other parts of europe horde lux cannot benefit by way as can marseilles nice or lyoid travelers to and to the bhore resorts around biarritz generally bacs through tie city without stopping the amerlean Amerl cin doughboy hew how ajer knows bordeaux Corde jux wen cn the united states went nent into the horld orld war the railroad railroads in the northern part of fraince fr inac acre ere greatly over worked and cl docked ched with vi I 1 h tra teafile file it ahe he northern ports too were by the submarine the brest south ward conditions were better brest st nazilee Nazi ire lre mantes nantes bordeaux Borde nui and bayonne thus sprung suddenly in into 0 front page headlines of american Ameri cun newspapers docking s even at bor deaux were nere rather poor st at that timp it tas a necessary for ameri amert cm cin virtually to recon some of the ports in n the spring of 1017 only two large ships could berth for unload unloading In at the same time in bordeaux but a or later there n u ere places for 15 vessels bassin a small village six miles down the garonne baronne froia from bor deaux nai me ghen fine docks docis and warehouses A great deal of the supplies and ammunition of the A E 13 F were landed here Boeni ix was un one of the few cities to benefit beneat by the war commercial but attractive despite the fact tl ti at it Is largely a commercial city Fordi aux Is in many respects ery cry attractive the main part of hie ilia dry city curves around the tile left back bank of lie file garonke river at this point describes a wide ade semicircle low white houses take the place of 0 the tenements so cear act of other french cities I 1 while the public buildings are grouped in the center of the city along public gardens or line the imposing quays of the waterfront tho the whole city Is surrounded by a circle of boulevard boulevards the cathedral thedral Cn of st andre started in the eleventh Cleie nth century Is considered one of the best proportioned gothic diuretics in southern france the pont de bordeaux one of the bridges connecting the city ft N ith the he right t bank of the garonne baronne Ga ronne was long considered among the finest in the world many of the magnificent arl private homes of the city were built when the great merchants of bordeaux were vere at the height of their wealth and power and are combar athcley modern modem around bordeaux Dor deaux are smiling hills bills and fresh valleys covered willi vineyards the vines they produce have made the district famous and have sent the names of medoc graves sauternes st edillon Em Illon etc around ground the tle world orld nearby also Is the little town of cognac which has lent its name to the mott mot potent of french liquids it Is the center of the brandy trade of the district south of Bord bordeaux paux stretch great pine forests and regions of waving grass like those of our southern atlantic states carcassonne assonne Is two towns carcassonne assonne straddles the hirer river aude about 55 G miles southeast of toulouse Tra travelers elers arriving at the dillway station in the so called new town on the west bank of the aude scan the mt i for a city of antiques but it Is not found on that side bide of the river the new tonn Is only about three hundred years older thin early american towns some of 0 the inhabitants of the old town across the river revolted against the king hing of I 1 trance ranee and nere ere driven out of the old town walls nails they were allowed to settle on the site elte of le tu new town that was nas in 1247 A beautiful shaded parkway near the railroad station introduces car massonne cas sonne but a few steps beyond the traveler Is hemmed in between waits alts of stone and brick buildings rising sheer from the sidewalks alks the streets run ran at tit right angles forming foral 0 solid blocks block the monotony of which h Is only by a few squares and small parks and a wide shaded boulevard the ilace place carnot is a combined market place loafing place and end meeting place in carcassonne assonne famous walls of the old city cross the aher 1 aude enter the gates of the old town toun and you are on tn a site which mitch u was as occupied by a settlement somewhere hack bak in the mists of history you may crosstie cross the aude by a modern bridge or with the ancient nal ramparts parts ahead abend of you you might prefer the old thirteenth century span the tro wring gray walls of the old boin were mere nible when battering rims were tie high explosives of attackers attack cn there are two walls with about 23 28 feet between them one glance it at these rum ramparts parts convinces tho the trav tray eler that one historian hIst orlan was wa 8 right when he said that oula jaminal or treason within he the walls valls coald caas caaso the capture of the town the walls form an Irre gillar oval about the old town tonn and have only four openings one opening in bah wall Is large enough to admit horses and wheeled ieh vehicles leles and eich Is guarded by a of turrets end towers the other openings are mere holes in the walls ide fee enough for only one man to aque ze through inside narrow cobbled streets breathe an atmosphere of man many y led aurles ago there Is the venerable venera bk st SL nazilee cathedric cath edril with stained glass windows depicting bible scenes and the chateau where high walls nails once echoed with nith the gay rev eirv of carca Carcas soine olae feudal lords these old structures tures look down upon streets alaj deserted for the life of carcassonne assonne today Is in the new town where the wine trade one 0 of the old trades of the city still flour flout lobes |