Two Summers in Guyenne

Edward Harrison Barker

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A Chronicle of the Wayside and WatersideBY EDWARD HARRISON
BARKER
Author of 'Wayfaring in France', 'Wanderings by
Southern Waters,' ETC.
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
[Illustration: G. Vuillies DOORWAY OF THE
ABBEY CHURCH AT BEAULIEU
(CORRÈZE).]PREFACE
Of the four summers which the writer of this
'Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside' spent by
Aquitanian rivers, the greater part of two provided
the impressions that were used in 'Wanderings by
Southern Waters.' Although the earlier pages of
the present work, describing the wild district of the
Upper Dordogne, through which the author passed
into Guyenne, belong, in the order of time, to the
beginning of his scheme of travel in Aquitaine, the
summers of 1892 and 1893, spent chiefly in
Périgord and the Bordelais, furnished the matter of
which this volume is mainly composed. Hence the
title that has been given to it.
It may be thought that there is not a sufficient
separation of interest, geographically speaking,
between the tracts of country described in the two
books. The author regrets that it is not possible to
convey in a few words an idea of the extent of the
old English Duchy of Aquitaine as it was defined by
the Treaty of Brétigny. Still less easy would it be to
deal rapidly with its physical contrasts, its relics of
the past, and its historical associations. Surely no
writer could pretend to have exhausted the interest
of such a subject even in two volumes.
Before the final expulsion of the English, Aquitaine
was gradually taking the name of Guyenne; but
when this designation came to be definitively
applied, at the time of the Renaissance, Gasconywas not included in it, nor were Poitou, Saintonge,
Angoumois and Limousin. Even when thus
restricted in its meaning, Guyenne still represented
a very considerable part of France, including as it
did the regions or sub-provinces known as the
Bordelais, Périgord, the Agenais, the Rouergue,
and the Quercy.
If the author's work during the fifteen years that he
has been living in France has served to make the
people, the scenery, and the antiquities of this
ever-fascinating country somewhat better known to
those who speak the English language, he believes
that it is to his favourite mode of travelling that
such good fortune must be largely attributed. His
faring on foot has caused him to see much that he
would otherwise have never seen; it has also
widened his knowledge of his fellow-men, and has
helped him to control prejudices which are not to
be entirely overcome, but ever remain an insidious
snare to the traveller and student of manners.
E. H. B.
PARIS, May, 1894.CONTENTS
THE UPPER DORDOGNE ACROSS THE MOORS
OF THE CORRÈZE IN THE VISCOUNTY OF
TURENNE IN UPPER PÉRIGORD IN THE
VALLEY OF THE VÉZÈRE IN THE VALLEY OF
THE ISLE FROM PÉRIGUEUX TO RIBERAC (BY
BRANTÔME) THE DESERT OF THE DOUBLE A
CANOE VOYAGE ON THE DRONNE BY THE
LOWER DORDOGNE BY THE GARONNELIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
DOORWAY OF THE ABBEY CHURCH AT
BEAULIEU (CORRÈZE) A BIT OF AUVERGNE
THE DORDOGNE AT LA BOURBOULE A
MOORLAND WIDOW THE VALLEY OF THE RUE
A WOMAN OF THE CORRÈZE A PEASANT OF
THE MOORS PLOUGHING THE MOOR A
GORGE IN THE CORRÈZE TURENNE A
PEASANT OF THE CAUSSE CHÂTEAU DE
FÉNELON RETURNING FROM THE FIELDS
BEYNAC CLOISTERS OF THE ABBEY OF
CADOUIN CHÂTEAU DE BIRON: THE LODGE
TRUFFLE-HUNTERS CHÂTEAU DES EYZIES
CHÂTEAU DE HAUTEFORT A HOUSE AT
PÉRIGUEUX THE TOUR DE VÉSONE THE
'NORMAN GATE' AT PÉRIGUEUX THE DRONNE
AT BOURDEILLES THE ABBEY OF BRANTÔME
CHÂTEAU DE BOURDEILLES THE DRONNE AT
COUTRAS A STREET AT ST. ÉMILION THE
CHÂTEAU DE MONTAIGNE AFTER THE FIRE
MONOLITHIC CHURCH AND DETACHED
TOWER AT ST. ÉMILION CONVENT OF THE
CORDELIERS: THE CLOISTERS TOUR DE
L'HORLOGE AT LIBOURNE THE HILL OF
FRONSAC BAZAS INTERIOR OF THE CHÂTEAU
DE VILLANDRAUT THE GARONNE CHÂTEAU
DE MONTESQUIEU THE GARONNE AT
BORDEAUX THE PALAIS GALLIEN AT
BORDEAUX