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HAULING A FISHING BOAT UP ON THE BEACH AT ETRETAT, PRANCE 



The cliffs at Etretat are among the most interesting on the French coast. They are 

 pierced by openings worn by the action of the sea. Etretat is a noted resort, especially 

 affected by artists and literary men, who are attracted by its picturesque and curious situation. 

 It is about fifteen miles north of Le Havre. 



sympathetic understanding of the strug- 

 gles of centuries to hold such a lovely- 

 province. 



One of the fiercest of these struggles 

 began with the Norsemen away back 

 in the ninth century. Their strange, 

 dragon - prowed galleys swooped down 

 upon the French coasts, and the frolic- 

 some vikings came inland, killing, burn- 

 ing, and destroying in true pirate fashion. 

 It took them about a century to secure 

 more than a mere toehold ; but then King 

 Charles the Simple did a wise thing and 



made the pirates welcome. They settled 

 thickly along the lower reaches of the 

 Seine and made Rouen their capital. And 

 the Norsemen were no mere freebooters. 

 Under Rollo the Ganger they fathered the 

 Xormans, who conquered England in 

 1066, and gave their name to this rich 

 and desirable region. 



THE FAMED TAPESTRY OP BAYEUX 



The story of their conquest of England 

 reposes safely under glass today, after a 

 somewhat stormy career, in the placid 



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