Along France's river of romance: . , the suddenappearance of Sancerre on its hill cannot fail to make aprofound impression. It is the return of the grandioseto the landscape, in a place where you had not expectedit. You would feel the same if you saw a Turner, atthe Tate Gallery, hung by accident in one of theChantrey rooms. The station of this surprising townbears the double name of Tracy-Sancerre. Tracy is asmall town with a fifteenth-century chateau, on theright bank of the river. From the station an omnibusconducts the traveller to Sancerre, which is situatedabout three miles away. The roa
Along France's river of romance: . , the suddenappearance of Sancerre on its hill cannot fail to make aprofound impression. It is the return of the grandioseto the landscape, in a place where you had not expectedit. You would feel the same if you saw a Turner, atthe Tate Gallery, hung by accident in one of theChantrey rooms. The station of this surprising townbears the double name of Tracy-Sancerre. Tracy is asmall town with a fifteenth-century chateau, on theright bank of the river. From the station an omnibusconducts the traveller to Sancerre, which is situatedabout three miles away. The road crosses the riverby the long suspension bridge, crosses also the lateralcanal, and traverses the little town of Saint-Satur,which possesses the choir of a magnificent fifteenth-century abbey church. After leaving Saint-Satur, theomnibus, with you inside it, passes under the viaduct SANCERRE 127 bearing the railway from Bourges, and begins to climbthe side of the hill on which Sancerre is placed. Baedeker !lj> ^JjjJ0 Wy JljJIl. Sancerre describes Sancerre as old and ill-built, so that loversof curious, unexploited places, who know also theirBaedeker, will have a notion of what to expect. But, 128 THE LOIRE no—it is better still. No one could anticipate the the terrace in the park of the modern chateau,home of the Uzes family (where also is a relic of thefortifications which dates from the fourteenth centuryand bears locally the name of the Tour des Fiefs), thethree provinces of Berry, Nivernais, and Orl^anais lieoutspread before you. But even finer views are to behad from the peaks which rise to the south of of these, IOrme-au-Loup, is topped by somereddish cliffs which have a covering of heather and goldenbroom, and look very fine from the river. From itssummit is a charming view over Sancerre and all round,across an expanse of country that is apparently bound-less, except on the side where it is limited by the distantmountains of the Morvan. The
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