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Title: Northern France : from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its environs : handbook for travellers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th cent, by the grandfather and father of the famous Philippe Pot(1428-94), Grand-Seneschal of Burgundy, whose tomb is preserved in theLouvre. Its present possessor is Captain Carnot, son of the president,who has restored it. In the Valley of the Cousanne, 2V2 M. to the N. of Nolay, are theGrotte de la Tournie (196 ft. deep) and the rock-circus known as the Boutdu Monde. The line now passes over two curved viaducts and through atunnel 1300 yds. long. — 49 M. Epinac (Hot. des Mines; de la Gare),a town with 4877 inhab., the centre of an important coal-miningdistrict. Lines to Les Laumes and to Dijon, see pp. 393, 403. —Farther on, to the right, are the Chateau dEpinac (15th cent.; restored)and the Chateau de Sully, rebuilt about 1570, the birthplace of MarshalMacMahon (1808-93). — 53 M. St. Leger-Sully. St. Leger-du-Boispossesses mines of carboniferous slate. At Sully are the ruins of an-other chateau. — At (57V2 M.) Dracy-St-Loup we join the line toAuxerre via Avallon (p. 413).
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to Nevers. AUTUN. 63. Route. 419 62^2 M« Autun. — Hotels. *St. Louis et de la Poste (PI. a; C, 2)Rue de IArbalete 6, R. from S/a, R. 1, d^j. 3, D. 3, pens, from 8V2, omn!1/2 fr.; DE LA TfiTE-NoiEE fPl, b; C, 2), Rue de TArquebuae, R. from 21/2d^j. 2V2,_ D. 3 fr. 5 NouvEL-HoTEL (PI. c; B, 3), Avenue de la Gare, R. from2V2, d^j. or D. 21/2 fr. — Restaurant Henri OautJiep, Rue St. Cbristophe,d^j. 2V2, D. 3 fr. — Ca/ds near the hotels and in the Champ-de-Mars. —Cabs lb c. per drive, 2 fr. per hr.; trunk 25-50 c. — Post & Telegraph Office(PI. D, 2), Rue de TArbalete 10. — Baths., Rue Changarnier. — SyndicatdPInitiative., Rue de TArtiuebuse 4. A large Fair takes place at Autun during the first fortnight in Sep-tember, on the festival of St. Lazare or St. Ladre, and strangers are re-commended not to chocse this period for a visit to the town. Autun, an industrial town with 15,479 inhab. and the see of abishop, occupies a pleasant situation on the slope of a hill, the footo

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