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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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eum). —The Boulevard de la Republique leads hence to the station. The Arsenal., Foundry, and other military establishments ofBourges lie outside the town, about V2 M. to the S.E. of St. Bonnet,and are reached by the Boul. du Progres, etc. The public, however,are not admitted. Still farther on, to the right, are extensive barracks,a proving-ground, etc. From Bourges to Laug^re, 35 M., railway in 2-2V2 hrs. (fares 4 fr. 35,3 fr. 15 c.). — 21 M. Dun-sur-Auron (H6t. du Sauvage; du Cheval-Blanc),an ancient town with 4462 inhab., and several interesting old buildings.35 M. Laug^re (p. 433). Railway to Montlu^on, a&eBaedeker^s Southern France. Railway to Beaune-la-Rolande (Eiampes), see pp. 428, 427; to Cosne via Sancerre, see p. 425. For some distance beyond Bourges the railway to Nevers con-tinues to ascend the valley of the Yevre. Between (152 M.) Moulins-sur-Tevre and (I561/2M.) Savigny-en-Septaine the line crosses theTevre three times. At (159/2 M.) Avbrd are a camp for military
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SaSjnog suixnoj^ NEVERS. 64. Route. 433 maiKBuvres and a school for non-commissioned officers 165 MBengy-sur-Craon; I68V2M. Nerondes, a small town with 2178 in-habitants^ The line now threads a tunnel and crosses the Auboisand the Canal du Berry before reaching (176A M.) La Ouerche-^/-(Afoh (Poste), a small town with 3254 inhab. and a churchot the nth and 15th centuries. In the vicinity are blast-fiirnacesand a quarry of lithographic stone. Sancoin^ rzi;e/ra«cft«-er^«,er, diverging from each other at (91/2 M.) o TiT^* ^^^^ ^^ ^^ Ouetin the railway crosses the AUier, aboutZ M. to the S. of the point where the Canal Lateral k la Loire fp 425^crosses that river by a magnificent aqueduct, 1650 ft. long 1821/2 M. Saincaize, 6 M. to the S. of Nevers, is also a station onthe Bourbonnais railway. Our line now passes through a tunnelturns to the N., and crosses the Canal Lateral and the Loire. Fineview of Nevers to the right. 189 M Nevers (Buffet). - Hotels. Hot. de Fkance (Pi. b: C 1) KALE

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