To the South
By GLYN DANIEL The traveller to the south of France who can spare a few days en route, or who likes travelling hopefully through the French countryside as much as arriving at the sun and the sea, may like to go along a route which 1 take—to the west of Paris and the Massif Central, through the Limousin and Perigord and over the causses country. Beauvais—Pontoise—St. Germain—Ver- sailles gets you to Fontainebleau, and you can, if you wish, pause at the Chateau in St. Germain-en-Laye and see (prefer- ably on a sunny day because the French National Museum of Antiquities is badly lit) some of the classic remains of pre- Roman Gaul. At Fontainebleau you join the route mauve south through Montargis to the Loire at Glen or Briare. Drive up the Loire a few miles and linger at Pouilly or Sancerre. Pouilly-sur- Loire is a village of little more than a thousand inhabitants but it has four or five excellent restaurants. I can think of few nicer first stops on the way south through France than Monsieur Raveau's Hotel Esperance here, drinking his own Pouilly
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