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THE present revised and improved HAND-BOOK TO FRANCE is adapted to the requirements of the day, and to the great alterations produced by the extension of the railway system. In writing it we have endeavoured to steer midway between tedious descriptions and a meagre list of names; in order to recommend it to the tastes of the majority of travellers, whose object is to see as much as possible with the least expenditure of time and money.

The plan pursued is as follows: Paris, is the great centre from which all the Routes spread over the country; which is now parcelled out into six Sections, corresponding to the six great Railway Companies. We first follow the trunk lines of each, and then their branches, in succession, as far as they go; describing everything worth notice upon them or in their vicinity, from the nearest station. Next, the roads which traverse a district remote from the new lines of communication, are described from some convenient starting point; and thus every locality of the slightest interest, however distant from a railway, is brought into connection with it and made accessible to the Traveller.

Besides the authorities referred to in the text, we have becu under great obligations for many useful details in the compilation and revision of this HANDBook, to A. Hugo's interesting work, entitled France Pittoresque, and to Hachette's series of French Itinéraires, edited by A. Joanne, and others. The leading events of the Franco-German War, of 1870-71, wherever they have affected the metropolis or the country at large, will be found duly noted under their respective heads, in the Introduction and in the body of the HAND-BOOK.

It is scarcely necessary to add that the production of a good Guide is a work of time, and the result of much patient thought, and gradual digestion of matter. Those, therefore, into whose hands this little book may fall, are earnestly invited to lend their assistance towards perfecting it, by transmitting such corrections or additional information as may be derived from personal experience or good authority, to our London or Manchester Office. Notices of alterations in conveyances, hotels, and other heads, will be received with thanks.

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