Excerpt from Wayfaring in France: From Auvergne to the Bay of BiscayBehind the actual - the charm of the picturesque and the attraction of an interesting and kindly peasantry strongly attached to their old customs and traditions - this Dordogne country has a history which is like a vista of romance. Especially must it appear so to people of British race. As a part of Aquitaine, or Guyenne, as the vast province came in later time to be termed, it shared in all the commotions and vicissitudes of those three centuries Of battle, adventure and troubadour minstrelsy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.