Mrs Bury Palliser

Brittany & Its Byways (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Mrs Bury Palliser Illustrated, Ill edition

Mrs Bury, (Fanny) Palliser, nee Marryat (1805-1878) was the British author of: A History of Lace (1865) and Brittany & Its Byways (1869). "A fair wind conveyed us in six hours from Poole to Cherbourg. It was dusk when we entered the harbour, and so we had no opportunity of seeing its beauty until the following morning, when we ascended a height behind the town, called the Mont du Roule. It is reached either on foot or by carriage, the Emperor having ordered a road to be made up to the fort which crowns the heights, on the occasion of the visit to Cherbourg, in 1858, of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Some 1500 men were immediately set to work, and, in a few days, an easy carriage-road was finished, up which the Emperor drove the Queen at his usual rapid pace. "