The coast route is the most interesting, as it gives splendid views of the Straits of Dover and the white cliffs of England. Sangatte (7½ kilometres from Calais) is famous in connection with M. Blériot’s cross-Channel flight, and for the abandoned workings of the Channel tunnel. [Illustration: TOWN PLAN NO. 3--CALAIS. _Walker & Boutall sc._] Four miles before passing over Cape Grisnez one passes the little town of Wissant, associated with the Roman _Portus Itius_, from which Julius Cæsar sailed when he made his first reconnaissance of the coast of Britain. Beyond the great headland is Ambleteuse, the landing-place of the fugitive James II. at 3 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1688. The King had left Rochester on the night of the 23rd, and had passed by a back-door on to the Medway, where he boarded the smack which brought him to the French coast. [Illustration: TOWN PLAN NO. 4--BOULOGNE.] At the next river-mouth is Wimereux Harbour, the landing-place of Prince Louis Napoleon in August, 1840. Having received no support, the Prince and his followers were easily captured, and in Boulogne one can see the thirteenth-century château, now converted into barracks, where he was imprisoned. [Illustration: No. 2. CALAIS TO BOULOGNE AND ROUEN.] Boulogne Cathedral was erected in 1869 on the site of the original Norman church, built in 1104 by Ida, the mother of Geoffrey de Bouillon. SECTION II ROUEN TO EVREUX, 32½ MILES (52 KILOMETRES) DISTANCES ALONG THE ROUTE Kil. Miles. =Rouen= to Pont de l’Arche =18= 11¼ =Pont de l’Arche= to Louviers =10= 6¼ =Louviers= to Evreux =24= 15 NOTES FOR DRIVERS On leaving the Seine for Pont de l’Arche, there is a long, winding ascent. After =Pont de l’Arche= comes a climb through the forest, and a switchback of small, sharp hills before reaching =Louviers=. After crossing the Iton, the road is hilly until the valley of that river is dropped into again, about 6 kilometres from Evreux. PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE ROUTE =Rouen.=--Cathedral; churches of St. Ouen and St. Maclou, and crypt of St. Gervais (on hill above the Place Cauchoise); the Grosse-Horloge gateway and belfry; Palais de Justice; Tour de Jeanne d’Arc; the spot where Jeanne d’Arc was burnt in the Place du Vieux-Marché; Maison Bourgthéroulde, No. 15 in the Place de la Pucelle, dating from 1486; many old timber-framed houses near cathedral. =Pont de l’Arche.=--Small town on the Seine; remains of ramparts; fifteenth- and sixteenth-century timber houses; beautiful fifteenth-century church, with coeval glass. =Louviers.=--Old manufacturing town, with a few picturesque houses near the church and market-place; south aisle and porch of church covered with remarkable profusion of fifteenth-century carving.