chautilly

Updated: May 17, 2025

Nothing escaped them, neither the detail of that strange and beautiful fen from which Amiens rises a country of peat and peat-cutters where the green plain is diapered with innumerable tiny lakes edged with black heaps of turf and daintily set with scattered trees nor the delicate charm of the forest lands about Chautilly. So much thinner and gracefuller these woods were than English woods!

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve