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Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s so magnificent that it seems unrealand fairylike. The great city and its faubourgs with its apparently innumerable church spires,chimney stacks and red roof tops, and the broad,brilliant Seine, busy with its shipping, flowing through the midst. This view as we had it just before the red sun sank beyond the western hills was so superb and impressive that we sat in the car and enjoyed it for a long time before winding our way down into the city. We stopped in Rouen at the Grand Hotel dAngleterre on the Cours Boieldieu facing the quai de la Bourse and found it very comfortable and convenient. Almost in front of us was the unique bridge, the Pont Transbordeur, which is a structure so lofty that the largest ships sail under it. From this high structure is suspended by long cables at the street level a platform which is run back and forth across the streamlike a traveling crane, taking teams and people across the river without compelling them to climb the high ascent which would otherwise be necessary. 32
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©ur Jfirsft 3Run in jFrance You cannot get away from the history of Jeanne DArc anywhere in Rouen. There is a great monument to her in the suburbs, another in the market square and near it a marble slabin the sidewalk records the place where she was burned at the stake in 1431. There are souvenir spoons of her and emblems of some sort or other in every shop, and we even saw ginger cakes in a bakers window so perfect in likeness that you would recognize her, leading one of our party to comment, incidentally, on the fact that she had always understood that ginger was noticeable in Joans characteristics. Rouen is justly famous for her superb cathedrals. They are creations of the best expressions in architecture and no one, no matter how much he may dread seeing Europe by the so-called Cathedral Route, can fail to be impressed with the solemnity and grandeur of St. Ouen,the finest specimen of Gothic architecture in France. We were shown through it by a stately,white-bearded official who, dressed in a b

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