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Updated: June 10, 2025
The road between Montargis and Briare, though not of hard mettle and without causeway, is yet level and in good condition. The country, except in the immediate vicinity of Briare, is flat and uninteresting; no inclosures; the soil of a gravelly nature, mixed in some parts with chalk. It seems, from the stubble of last year and the young wheat of this, to be very poor indeed.
They have only come from this side of Briare this morning, but though the journey is not long the road is heavy. They had twenty-four hours' rest before that, which they needed sorely, having travelled from Laville in three days." "Draw a good supply of forage for them from the magazines," De la Noue said. "See that the saddlebags are well filled in the morning.
About Briare, there are innumerable vineyards, and yet we had very bad grapes; but that was our landlord's fault, not that of the vines. It is a wretched place; the inn opposite, called La Poste, is said to be better. We had last night a good deal of rain. The weather is completely broken up, and we are at least three weeks or a month later than we ought to have been.
The cutlery, where they have any, is very bad; but in many of the inns, trusting, no doubt, to the well known expedition of French fingers, they put down only forks to dinner. We left Montargis at seven in the morning, and travelled very slowly indeed. At five o'clock, after a very tedious journey, we arrived at Briare, a distance of only 27 miles from Montargis.
Entering a village near the crossing place, they found a peasant who was willing, for a reward, to guide them across the country to Briare, on the Loire their first guide had returned from their first halting place and the peasant, being placed on a horse behind a man-at-arms, took the lead.
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