En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries and over nineteen great passes of Europe (1908) (14583028428)

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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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e night.Some military fete was in progress, and the townwas packed solid with soldiers. Here and there anofficer with his wife and family paraded its streets,taking the innumerable salutes with a smile and anod. Here and there a group of officers stood chat-ting, and from the open doors of crowded cafescame the sound of music. In fact everything lookedso bright and cheery that it was hard to realise thechange that thirty years had wrought. All day wehad rushed across France, at her best, yet a part ofFrance that one can only pass through with feelingsof sorrow at the thouo^ht of the tragedies it haswitnessed. Unfortunate Louis, so near to freedom,and yet so far, fled along this road only to be cap-tured and carried back—a prisoner—to the guillo-tine. In this fair land lies Sedan, once merely aremote village unknown to many, now a worldwidename as the place where impetuous bravery andpatriotism fell before military genius and perfectorganisation. The great march of the Prussians238
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1 lii.N I iiKui 1,11 I III: (,()i;i;i-;s (<P ill !•; T.\i;,\ JOHN O GROATS TO COPENHAGEN passed over these roads. And finally the loss ofAlsace and Lorraine, perhaps the heaviest blow.Still time, the great healer,, has laid his fingers uponthis land and is slowly healing up the once openwound. Towards the frontier the road passes by manyfactories, and the fair valleys are disfigured by uglychimneys pouring out thick, black smoke. Thistour I had been careful to obtain custom papersfrom the Koyal Automobile Club for Germany,Italy, Switzerland, and Austria, depositing themoney in London, and obtaining a free pass toenter these countries. This system is one of themany valuable privileges that the club confersupon its members for Continental travel. LeavingFrance we entered the little state of Luxemburg—and Germany. From the capital of that tinykingdom we were favoured with one of the mostbeautiful drives in Germany along the banks of theswift Moselle. Upon the high hills on both ba