Along France's river of romance: . 316 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS Mont Gerbier de Jones, with the Ferme de la Loire in the foregroundScene at Le Monastier—Market-dayLace-makers, Haute LoireThe Gazeille .The Source An Ox-cart in the CevennesOld Farm near Coubon .The Bridge below BrivesRocher dAiguilhe, Le PuyMarket Scene, Le Puy, Haute LoireNear Le Puy .At Pont de LignonCastle of Rocliebaron, near BasAt Feurs The Saut de PinayNear Roanne, St. Maurice XI 5 912224144454853597274808587 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Digoin La Charite Sancerre The Loire near Pouilly-sur-Loire At Tracy Street in Cosne Neu
Along France's river of romance: . 316 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS Mont Gerbier de Jones, with the Ferme de la Loire in the foregroundScene at Le Monastier—Market-dayLace-makers, Haute LoireThe Gazeille .The Source An Ox-cart in the CevennesOld Farm near Coubon .The Bridge below BrivesRocher dAiguilhe, Le PuyMarket Scene, Le Puy, Haute LoireNear Le Puy .At Pont de LignonCastle of Rocliebaron, near BasAt Feurs The Saut de PinayNear Roanne, St. Maurice XI 5 912224144454853597274808587 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Digoin La Charite Sancerre The Loire near Pouilly-sur-Loire At Tracy Street in Cosne Neuvy Chatillon Gien A Street in Gien The Chateau of Sully St. Benoit Orleans The Loire near Orleans The Porte dAmont at Meung Beaugency Beaugency Bridge Mer A Side Street in Blois The Cisse at Onzain The Cisse near Vouvray The Chateau, Luynes The Chateau, Langeais The Loire at Port-Boulet Candes Saumur The Loire at Gennes Les Ponts-de-Ce Montjean St. Florent-le-Vieil At Ancenis The Cathedi-al, Nantes On the Quay, Nantes PaimbcEuf. Mont Gerbier de Jones, with the Ferme de la Loire in the foreground INTRODUCTION WHAT THE LOIRE MEANS TO FRANCE rMHE River Loire rises, 4500 feet above the sea, on the-*- slope of Gerbier de Jones, the highest peak, but one,of the Cevennes. After a course of eighteen miles, itenters, as a wild mountain torrent, the department ofHaute Loire. At Vorey, below the confluence of theArzon, it becomes (officially) navigable for rafts. It isclassified as navigable for vessels at La Noirie in thegorges of St. Victor, four miles after its entry intothe next department, that of Loire. After crossing theunhealthy swamps of the Plaine du Forez it enters freshgorges, its last struggle with the rocks, from which itemerges at Roanne. It now skirts the department ofSa6ne-et-Loire, and enters that of Nievre, where itscourse is diverted in a north-westerly direction by themountains of the Morvan. Below Nevers it is joinedby its first great tributary, the Allier, which i
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