THE SPELL OF THE HEART OF FRANCE
The Towns, Villages and Chateaux about Paris
By André Hallays
The Page Company
1920
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CONTENTS
THE SPELL OF THE HEART OF FRANCE
X. FROM MANTES TO LA ROCHE-GUYON
INTRODUCTION
Whoever has read "The Spell of Alsace" by André Hallays will need no introduction to the present book. While the work on Alsace was undoubtedly read by many because of its timely publication just at the close of the Great War, when Alsace and all things French were uppermost in the public mind, these readers found themselves held and charmed as much by Monsieur Hallays' wondrous talent for visualizing landscape and for infusing the breath of life into images of the past as by the inherent interest of the subjects on which he discoursed.
His books are not travel books in the hackneyed sense of the word. He does not catalogue the things which should be seen, or describe in guidebook fashion those objects which are starred by Baedeker. He does not care to take us to see the things which "every traveler ought to see." He specialize