Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France

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Excerpt from Travelling Sketches on the Sea-Coasts of France: With Beautifully Finished Engravings, From Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.The trip from Dover to Calais is pleasant even to a landsman for in three hours one has hardly time to be tired of the sea. When the Englishman, however, lands in France, he feels a sort of chill come over him as he finds himself all at once in the custody of a gendarme. The gendarme's busi ness, which he executes, with politeness, and without a fee, is simply to conduct him to the douane, and it is, therefore, the military dress of the officer, and nothing else, which offends our island prejudices.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.