Show tl Ts q 0 T it V 1 4 7 street scene in rouen normandy prepared by the national Geo geographic graphia goo Bo cloty loty washington D C HE early history of normandy even taking it only from the reign of Il richard lebard the fea fearless bess explains in itself why today to those who look below the sur x face normandy seems in many ways a imparate parate pe land from france the 30 years bf english occupation under henry V left their lasting impress though its natural position demands that it should bo be en an integral part of france that norman power of adaptation to circumstance was the fatal gift so apparent in its sicilian conquest which lins has destroyed the norman as a separate race it has been said that the aln finished asbed historian mastbe must be a traveler but one who possesses to the full the instincts of bf the traveler must know his history as he knows with his own eyes the true tru elook look of it wide land picture follows picture in the radiant normandy landscape the limpid light Is at once brilliant and tender and aid the eye feasts always on a banquet of color between slits silts tit of cliff are bits of sea poplars shiver it in tile the sun slope elope from height to ocean longing for the sea and ad the green roadway threads its path through all it to Is not strange that Is isabel abey and daubigny Daubl gny found beauty here in fancy i richard sans and ile ie still ride through the fores fore ts Is and legends people every ruin less in tile the present than in the past one dwells much on the stirring times when nor mandy had a life of its own and the norman name was famous from scotland to sicily I 1 Hon leur Is a quaint port with its famo famous 11 S saint a tit catherines belfry house shop warehouse all in one while a delicately modeled spire crowns rv s tile the whole villas line the hills old gates and watchtowers watch towers yet remain of the bonfleur honfleur Hon fleur of great days beyond the quay bristle a hundred masts sails drip with color and the water Is nile green a bit of cairo in the north of france along the water front the same old houses which nearly years ago were brave in their brand new carvings as they looked out to see the high decked spanish ships ride in dipping their alas to the fleurdelis fleur leur de lis alls of france then havre was only a strip of yellow plage before the threatening sand bar stole harbor inch by inch reminders Rc of the conqueror lisieux Is 19 one of the charming corners where something still remains of the th middle ages and in the church tire windows depleting depicting the marriage of henry II if and queen eleanor and thomas a becket in his norman exile the most personal beginning of the norman conquest was at Fala falaise Fal alse tse there from a window wIndo wo of f the lofty cas tle keep robert count of glesnes later robert the magnificent and robert bobert le ie diable raw mw arlette Arl elte the he tanners pretty daughter washing clothes at the riverside with all the settings of romantic legend she became the mother of that king whose bar sinister was blotted out in conqueror at caen one Is in his footsteps saint etienne contains ills tomb ant and has an interior remarkable for strength and solidity a perfect example of the norman romanesque adorned though it now is by 24 glass chan genera dellers 0 the nineteenth cent most lurid pattern the hotel le de la in donnale Is a splendid house built by a princely merchant 13 etienne tienne du val bleur de Mon mondrainville drainville the man whose great wealth enabled him to get sufficient supplies into metz for it to withstand Ith stand its ite siege in IBM 1533 there la Is an atmosphere of heroes and kings in caen one sees tile the tomb of the conqueror and the house where beau brummel died fie he sees the ruined castle where le ie jeune et beau bunols performed prodigies of valor many french artists archaeologists archeologists and men of letters are alarmed at the lack of consideration manifested by the state retae for the national monuments which aro are being allowed either cither to fall into decay or to be restored with indiscretion the great roaster master rodin was deeply concerned with tills this question and in his desire to awaken public interest wrote a series ot of es essay mya on the cathedrals of france the study of which was his favorite pastime the walls walla that william built anil and folgart Fol Fiol sart writes about are a girdle that lait la Is 1 exit today the conquerors ton son tr it brought to mind us ono one looka at habbaye aux domines Ho 11 mines and visa vis a via habbaye aux aus dames like the queen who bullied it sits on a throne it la Is at bayeux though that ona ona feels nearer that queen mathilde gray dim bayeux old even then when the conquerors queen was writing history his i tory with her needle the first of bf the great french realists lae seems in the nalo naive of those old tape tapestries which truly are an epic fine Perch Perc herons erona are many between towns in normandy one Is struck by the fine perc herons along the smooth white roads they pass in sturdy line with that majestic dignity only possible to thoroughbreds whether horses or humans their mottled haunches and polished coats gleam like icke mother ol o pearl and their liquid eyes speak volumes to one who loves them then dives dives dires with its inn of the conquering william where madame de sevigne really left her patch box and one almost lan fancies cles the odor of rose leaves behind her where the cook beats eggs in old caen bowls th that atthe the china collector greedily gazes on and where the exquisite tapestries ought to be put under glass A chateau it was built for the conqueror while his bouts boats were building that he crossed to england in and over the door are still beill the arms of an old seigneur neur who married into tile the house of savoy dives port now nearly choked with sand was waa ancela great haven there williams fleet bleet assembled fo tor r the conquest que of england lay jay a whole month awaiting the favorable winds ands which never came until they had changed their position to saint valery between rouen and havre Is the pretty town of Cade caudebec bec with quaint timbered houses and its ita broad terrace beside the river on a market day in the he grande place in front of the church Is to be seen one of tile the few old time sights of normandy the grand old church and the place itself contributing their share la in the ensemble but the traveler who would see this specimen of an old norman town wearing still its mellow and picturesque charm must hasten thither without delay wonderful mont saint michel mont saint michel with its detached air appears as though man and nature united in their work to build a masterpiece its one straggling street that begins in the gateway of a king and ends all ali that Is the point where does docs wend it end three times did the vision of saint michel 1 appear to saint aubert commanding a church on the rocky helg heights hta hence roso rose that marvel of early norman architecture with its tombs of saints and heroes and brothers of kings its blick black virgin its salle des chevaliers Chev aliers with sunlit aisles its cloisters end and exquisite colonnades colo nades As one thinks of the history that has peopled this pinnacled hill emotions impressions and sensations crowd the mind and surely the faintest imagination can fill the structure with the kingly shapes and knightly ilia dows of the hundred years war trouville deauville dieppe in a chort sketch of normandy those gay bathing places those doubles ex traits de paris lt roust must be omi omitted tied they are in the twentieth century though and the sal salon n of a casino in 0 the hie height of the season la Is an animated and aar diverting scene in normandy theartist may find congenial occupation and the opp opportunity or so difficult in those these days of sketching picturesque types groups group sat at the market place groups at the inn doors horses in clumsy harness goals and sheep in biblical melange ile he will find doors and porches of so good a pat tern and so old that they tire are new to the world of today one may learn the value of variety in its simplest simples t forms end and realize the artistic worth of filah pitched roofs find and contrasts lo ii color if it be only of dark bennit beaff against plaster and of meaning in tho the lines of construction but these treasures of normandy are disappearing fast and must be quickly gathered la in all the fair normandy coast each year more and more Is there a disappointing note 0 one n e looks almost la in vain for the old normandy costumes the blouse and the close white cap are all that are left now of the wondrous headgear the short petticoats the embroidered stomacher tho the caen end and ilonen jewels of a generation ago modernizing destruction is rapidly blotting out the nemory memory of old d daya |