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Updated: September 29, 2025
"Others seem to have about them the children born in their image, little spires, all round them; some are covered with bosses, knobs, and blisters; others pierced like colanders and strainers, in patterns of trefoils and quaterfoils that seem to have been punched out; here we find some that are covered with ornament, with teeth like a rasp, ridges of notches, or bristling with spines; others are imbricated with scales like a fish, as we see in the older spire at Chartres; and others again, like that at Caudebec, display the emblem of the Roman Church, the triple crown of the Pope.
They have the advantage of a current moving in either direction twice a day and yet not the disadvantage of greatly varying levels of water. Thus one may say of the Seine in the old days that from about Caudebec to Point de L'Arche it enjoyed such inland tidal conditions; and of the Thames from Greenwich to Teddington that similar advantages existed.
His mother and father and sister lived at Caudebec; and the only sweetheart he had ever had, and it was poor love-making then, was a girl in Rouen. He slapped his second-in-command on the shoulder.
Before entering his carriage, the First Consul made a present to Monseigneur, the archbishop, of a snuff-box with his portrait, and also gave one to the mayor, on which was the inscription, 'Peuple Francais'. We stopped at Caudebec for breakfast.
War in Brittany and Normandy Death of La Noue Religious and political persecution in Paris Murder of President Brisson, Larcher, and Tardif The sceptre of France offered to Philip The Duke of Mayenne punishes the murderers of the magistrates Speech of Henry's envoy to the States-General Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry Siege of Rouen Farnese leads an army to its relief The king is wounded in a skirmish Siege of Rue by Farnese Henry raises the siege of Rouen Siege of Caudebec Critical position of Farnese and his army Victory of the Duke of Mercoeur in Brittany.
War in Brittany and Normandy Death of La Noue Religious and political persecution in Paris Murder of President Brisson, Larcher, and Tardif The sceptre of France offered to Philip The Duke of Mayenne punishes the murderers of the magistrates Speech of Henry's envoy to the States-General Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry Siege of Rouen Farnese leads an army to its relief The king is wounded in a skirmish Siege of Rue by Farnese Henry raises the siege of Rouen Siege of Caudebec Critical position of Farnese and his army Victory of the Duke of Mercoeur in Brittany.
"I have no preference when I have an order to execute, sire." "There, now you are sulky. Ah! kings have no friends." "Those who give orders can only expect to find servants." "Monsieur," replied the king, angry again, "you will go then to Rouen; you will go on board your ship, and will take the garrisons of Caudebec, Harfleur, and Dieppe, which I will replace afterward.
Not that all Teutonic traces have gone even from the less Norman parts of Normandy. How many of the English travellers who land at Dieppe stop to think that the name of that port, disguised as it is by a French spelling, is nothing in the world but "The Deeps?" If any one, now that there is a railway, prefers to go along the lovely valley of the Seine, he will come to the little town of Caudebec.
Secretly he took his resolution and communicated it in strict confidence to Mayenne, to Ranuccio, and to one or two other chiefs. He came to Caudebec, and there, close to the margin of the river, he threw up a redoubt. On the opposite bank, he constructed another.
On the left bank steep hills, originally wholly clothed with forest and still thickly wooded, run down to the river with few breaks in them, each break, however, being garrisoned by an ancient town. Of these, Caudebec stands unrivalled. On the right bank the flat plain of Normandy stretches to the sky-line, pink-and-white in spring with miles of apple-orchards.
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