Brittany & Its Byways

There are few objects of enthusiasm for the town of Cherbourg. The ladies all wear the substantial Normandy top. In the Place d'Armes is a bronze equestrian statue of the Emperor Napoleon I., and on the platform is recorded "J'avois résolu de renouveler à Cherbourg les merveilles de l'Egypte". In the Library is an inquisitively formed stack bit of the fifteenth century, hued and overlaid, expelled from a room of the nunnery. The essential church, La Trinité, is an odd muddle of construction modeli.


This book is an illustrated version of the original Brittany and Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser. “A fair wind conveyed us in six hours from Poole to Cherbourg. It was dusk when we entered the harbour, and so we had no opportunity of seeing its beauty until the following morning, when we ascended a height behind the town, called the Mont du Roule. It is reached either on foot or by carriage, the Emperor having ordered a road to be made up to the fort which crowns the heights, on the occasion of the visit to Cherbourg, in 1858, of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Some 1500 men were immediately set to work, and, in a few days, an easy carriage-road was finished, up which the Emperor drove the Queen at his usual rapid pace. The view from the fort is lovely, commanding the whole line of the northern point of the Cotentin, from the low promontory of Cape de la Hogue to Barfleur. The water of the harbour, owing to its great depth, is of the most intense blue, which we quite agreed with the guardian of the fort in likening to that of the Bay of Naples.”