We walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First. One is overcome by a feeling of distress at the sight of this poverty which has no grandeur. It is not absolute ruin, with the luxury of blackened and mouldy débris, the delicate embroidery of flowers, and the drapery of waving vines undulating in the breeze, like pieces of damask. It is a conscious poverty, for it brushes its threadbare coat and endeavours to appear respectable. The floor has been repaired in one room, while in the next it has been allowed to rot. It shows the futile effort to preserve that which is dying and to bring back that which has fled. Strange to say, it is all very melancholy, but not at all imposing.

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"Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany" by Gustave Flaubert Flaubert and a friend took this trip when he was a young man and they wrote about it. This is Flaubert's story of the trip. It is much like a travelogue. It reads as though it were written in the modern time and can even be a useful tool for travelers.