15 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 15

LIFE IN NORMANDY.

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Having spent part of my youth in Normandy, I read with interest the letter of "M. M." in the Spectator of February 8th. I concur in great part of its contents, but the statement that "meat is served twice a day" fills me with astonishment, and shows that times are changed indeed. My experience dates fifty years back, and then meat was hardly, if ever, seen at farmers' tables, and a present of a small joint was gladly accepted as a remuneration for entertainment hospitably afforded by them. I know that even my landlord, living com- fortably in Havre, seldom saw meat at his table. Bread and eider were his ordinary fare. It appears that nous avans