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Hotel de Ville, at centre of city, has a tower of the 15th cent.; here is the Library of 170,000 vols. and 1190 MSS. Avignon, the ancient Avenio, chief town of the Département Vaucluse, on the River Rhone, the seat of an archbishop, is a very important place in the history of the Catholic Church. Upon the river bank, which rises like a cliff, are the Papal Palace and Cathedral, and about this spot the city is picturesque. It was the residence from 1305 until 1377 of Popes in antagonism to the Popes of Rome. At the entrance to the city from the Station the old walls should be noticed. The appropriate season for travel in France will be decided by the purpose of the traveller. Spring, summer, and early autumn for the north and west, summer and early autumn for the Pyrenees, winter for the Mediterranean coast; all the year round for Paris. A special interest attaches to Normandy and Picardy, those parts of France nearest to England; there is no wonderful scenery, but a country very like Kent and Surrey, with constant suggestions of a common history—castles, churches, abbeys, and cathedrals, the grandest in the land, erected by men with whom the mediæval Englishman was close kin. In Brittany there is a wild weird coast, old world towns, druidical remains, and a region of legend. Along the Pyrenees the scenery is ruggedly magnificent, forest, torrent, broken and towering mountain, with health resorts crushed in gorges or perched on ridges where the curative springs are most accessible.

Denmark.—No Regulations in force. But Passports or similar documents may be required by the Police from persons accepting employment in Denmark before furnishing them with an "opholdsbog (situation book), or from music hall artistes. ICELAND.—No Regulations in force. In practically all European Countries no merchandise is allowed to enter free of duty. In the case of travellers the custom-house officials have a certain latitude allowed them, and in France, for instance, the question, Have you anything to declare? if answered in the negative is very frequently followed, in the absence of any suspicious circumstances, by the traveller being allowed to pass almost without examination.Bradshaw's general railway and steam navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland, 1891:March - No. 692 Milligan, Edward H. (2007). British Quakers in Commerce & Industry 1775-1920. York: Sessions Book Trust. p.61. ISBN 9781850723677.

Motor Cars.—Detailed information regarding Motor Car regulations upon the Continent will be found in the Handbook of the Automobile Club. Thermometer Table. — On the Continent thermometers are frequently graded for both Centigrade and Reaumur. Burnand, F. C. Cox and Box, 1866, reprinted at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 21 August 2012Chief town of Département de l’Yonne, on the River Yonne. Railway Station on east side of city, about half mile from centre. Hughes, Joh William C. (1896). Bradshaw's Hand-book to Brittany. London: W.J. Adams & Sons . Retrieved 4 February 2020. ( PDF version).