Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . afes in the Place de 1 AmiralCourbet. — Cabs. Per drive, 1-2 pers. 75 c, 3-4 pers. Ifr.; per hr. IV2 or2 fr. — Post & Telegraph Office (PI. B, 4), Grande-Rue-Notre-Dame 19. —Swimming Bath (Pi. B, 6), Buul. des Prcs. Abbeville, an ancient fortress and an important cloth-manu-facturing town, with 20,704 inhab., is situated on the Somme, onwhich there is a small harbour. Abbeville was of sufficient importance under Hugh Capet to receivea girdle of ramparts, and it was
Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers . afes in the Place de 1 AmiralCourbet. — Cabs. Per drive, 1-2 pers. 75 c, 3-4 pers. Ifr.; per hr. IV2 or2 fr. — Post & Telegraph Office (PI. B, 4), Grande-Rue-Notre-Dame 19. —Swimming Bath (Pi. B, 6), Buul. des Prcs. Abbeville, an ancient fortress and an important cloth-manu-facturing town, with 20,704 inhab., is situated on the Somme, onwhich there is a small harbour. Abbeville was of sufficient importance under Hugh Capet to receivea girdle of ramparts, and it was the rendezvous for the leaders of thelirst two crusades. At the marriage of Eleanor of Castile to Edward 1272 it passed to England, and it remained with little interruptionunder English dominion for nearly 200 years. After a short period underthe dukes of Burgundy it fell finally to France in 1477. In 1514 themarriage of Louis XII. with Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII., was cele-brated at Abbeville; and in 1527 Wolsey and Francis 1. signed here theiralliance against Charles V. AiiiVILLi 1: lOO 200 30O. ft impriinp par VTa^er 8. Dehes . Ledpti^ to Amiens. ABBEVILLE. ,. ^,^^, I3 t^!^^^^^^^^^^ edifice of scale. The handsome *Fa,adeta\^twt^trf^^^^^^^^ terio^^trLtt iTarrX^ ^^„?The l?c\?i^^?^^ ^^^^ *^-* «^ the ex-the foundations, have renuired to ht ptf v^^^*^ ^^ *^e «i°l^iDg ofto the usual rule, the fflr is the let^tT^-*^ supported. Contrary17th century. Th^ rich trifoHum in thTml^lT^ Part dating from theThe first two chapels on theTfThave finf^f^^^w* ^^^^ remarkable,and the third chapels on each sid? 7nnf»° f altar-screens (16th cent.),The ChapelJe de Ke Dame des Me-Sl^^^^^ f^.^^5*^^^ (15-16th cent.)tains an altar of the Virgin with pr!^ 1 \.* *^® ^^ °^ ^^^ S. aisle, con-The altar at the end of he cW has?cS ,f° ^^ T. Assumption (im).painted on a gold ground o;pos4thTdon^*fPf^^ late 14th cent )fication of the Virgin painted oSglassa525r ^*^ ^ ^^°
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