Neufchatel-en-Bray Normandie - 1908

Title : Neufchatel en Bray Normandie 1908  
Author : Not Stated
Source : Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist
Year Published : 1908
Page Count : 12
Image Count : 8
Word Count : 3042
File Size in MB : 4.7
File Type : PDF

"Neufchatel lies on the steep hillside on the right bank of the Bethune and astride the main cross roads running north and south between Paris and Dieppe, and east and west between Rouen and Amiens, and it was along the former of these roads that all the traffic from England by way of Dieppe passed to Paris until early in the last century, when the railway was made through Rouen. Although it possesses a distinctly respectable and prosperous appearance, Neufchatel has not been spoiled, but still retains the picturesqueness of an old French town ; and though many of the buildings have been refaced or plastered, as well as shop- fronted, it has been done in too jumbling a way to be altogether ugly ; while many a house which presents to the street a common­ place front shows behind and at the sides the timber construction of the sixteenth century. In fact, it remains, in spite of fires and foes, a wooden town such as one might expect to find built within a forest of oak..."