Two Summers in Guyenne

Two Summers in Guyenne

Project Gutenberg's Two Summers in Guyenne, by Edward Harrison
Barker Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to
check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or
redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.
This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project
Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the
header without written permission.
Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the
eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is
important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how
the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a
donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.
**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**
**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since
1971**
*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of
Volunteers!*****
Title: Two Summers in Guyenne
Author: Edward Harrison Barker
Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8546] [Yes, we are more than one
year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on July 22, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWO
SUMMERS IN GUYENNE ***

Produced by DP Beginners Projects, Commissioner Sleer and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team

TWO SUMMERS IN GUYENNE
A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside

BY 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, Gascony was 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 GARONNE

LIST 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