Kil. Miles. =Bergerac= to Eymet =25= 15½ =Eymet= to Seyches =19= 11¾ =Seyches= to Marmande =15= 9½ =Marmande= to Casteljaloux =22= 13½ =Casteljaloux= to Houeillès =16= 10 =Houeillès= to St. Justin =34= 21 =St. Justin= to Mont-de-Marsan =24= 15 NOTES FOR DRIVERS Hilly from =Bergerac= to =Seyches=; after that a flat road, with a moderately good surface. PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE ROUTE =Bergerac.=--A rather modern town on the Dordogne; new church; old streets, only fairly picturesque; sixteenth or seventeenth century house called the Château de Henri IV. =Eymet.=--Old village, with ruined castle, ramparts, and a good gateway. _Miramont._--Village, with quaint houses. _Marmande._--Small town, with church of thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. _Casteljaloux._--Small town, with some interesting old houses. _Pompogne._--A hamlet in the forest, with church of eleventh, thirteenth, and sixteenth centuries. _Houeillès._--Another forest village; has a Romanesque church, with a fortified tower. _St. Justin._--Picturesque little town, with ruined ramparts, old houses, and thirteenth-century church. _Mont-de-Marsan._--A town of small interest; remains of a keep inside the barracks. Bergerac is a cheerful town on the north bank of the broad Dordogne, with straight modern streets and few antiquities. During the religious wars of the sixteenth century it was sufficiently important to give its name to the sixth peace concluded between Catholics and Protestants, and it became one of the eight places of safety where Protestants could worship unmolested. About 1620 Cyrano de Bergerac, the author, was born in the town. There is a large modern church in the style of the thirteenth century. Nearer the river there is a network of narrow, and a trifle unsavoury, streets. The mouldering old houses often have their upper stories projecting on massive stone corbels or the ends of huge beams, and the half-timber work is filled in with thin bricks laid in thick mortar. Among these narrow ways, in the Rue des Rois de France, is a larger and better-built structure of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, called the Château de Henri IV., but it is not worth looking for unless one has time to spare. The street leads down to the river at the point where the old bridge stood. The abutment on the south bank remains. Crossing the Dordogne, the route is due south through a country of vineyards. On reaching some steep hills, the road curves to the right, to take the ascent as easily as possible, and soon afterwards winds down into and out of the valley of a small tributary of the Dordogne.