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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 10: the voyage and Arrival.—December, 1837, to January, 1838— age, 26-27. (search)
n my right is la belle France and the smiling province of Normandy; and the waters which now bear this American ship are theh Caesar with his frail boats, and afterwards William of Normandy, passed to the conquest of England. Their waves dash nowec. 30 (Saturday). A day at Rouen, the ancient capital of Normandy; and my eyes and mind have been constantly on the stretchations. Enlarged, if not built, by the ancient dukes of Normandy anterior to the conquest of England, it is the chosen plarepose. Here are the remains of Rollo, the first duke of Normandy and the ancestor of the Conqueror, and over them a monumeer lived and did what we are told they did: if William of Normandy actually conquered England; and, indeed, if such a place s wonderful cathedral, and master the romantic history of Normandy. From Normandy sprang the long line of kings that has goNormandy sprang the long line of kings that has governed England; and here are the tombs of the founders of this dynasty. Two of the finest specimens of Gothic architecture