Note 1570 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 2)

Benjamin of Tudela passed through the south of France. He gives a few details (for the most part concerning the Jewish population) about Narbonne, Béziers, Montpellier, Lunel, Posquières, Arles, and Marseilles. Apparently he went by sea from Marseilles to Genoa (Itinerary, Adler’s edit., pp. 2–5).

William the Breton gives several striking descriptions of landscapes in France in his Philippis. His descriptions of Château Gaillard, of the vicinity of Tours, of Flanders, and of the region about Pontarlier are cited and in part translated into German by Ganzenmüller, Naturgefühl, 1914, pp. 196–197.