motoring-map

Updated: May 8, 2025

"Adolphe, take the left bank of the Seine." He unfolded a motoring-map on his knees and, tracing the route with his finger, showed Hortense that, if you draw a line from Le Havre, or rather from Quillebeuf, where the road crosses the Seine, to Dreux, where the stolen car was found, this line passes through Routot, a market-town lying west of the forest of Brotonne: "Now it was in the forest of Brotonne," he continued, "according to what I heard, that the second part of The Happy Princess was filmed.

Maurice Leblanc - The Eight Strokes of the Clock