Excerpt from Everyone's Geography of France In this little book written specially for you, to be, as we hope, your practical daily companion, you will find all indispensable information on the whole of the French Land. But you must have to your hand in your library a book designed more particularly for education: Gallouédec and Maurette's Géographic de la France (I vol. 5 francs). If you are preparing examinations, yon will be satisfied to know Maurette's Résumé aide-mémoire de géographie de la France (I vol 1 fr.50). If you want a magnificent explanation of the French soil and of the political and economical formation of France, get Vidal de la Blache's La France (I vol. in-quarto: illustrated with 167 engravings and maps printed apart from the text: bound, 35 francs). Are you a business man? Then put on your shelves the alphabetical index to all the localities of French territory: P. Joanne's Dictionnaire géographique de la France (8 vol. in-quarto, with plans and maps in abundance: 225 francs). On the wall of your study, Schrader's Carte de France (63 cm x 90 cm; 2 fr. 50) and Vivien de Saint-Martin's Grande Carte (90 cm x 120 cm.- 3 francs) will keep the image of France present to your eyes, will enable you to roam France in spirit and to prepare your actual excursions. And in this France, as soon as you revisit it, you will find the "Guides bleus" (the "Guides Joanne") to take you everywhere and show you everythiwg! There are 15 of them, covering the whole of France: and you should particularly note, as published in English. "The Loire Chateaux," "Paris," "Versailles and the Trianons," "Brittany Watering Places," "Normandy Watering Places" and "North French Watering Places." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.