Crossword-Solution: OUDON 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

From Mauves to Oudon, where we dined, the country is still very thickly wooded and inclosed; the properties evidently very small, and therefore innumerable cottages and small gardens.

Many days and years must pass over before I forget our walk on the green road from Oudon to Ancennis--one of the sweetest, softest scenes in France.

But of all the friends the strangers made among them they liked old Mère Oudon best--a shrivelled leaf of a woman, who at ninety-two still supported her old husband of ninety-eight.

All these isles are in a high state of cultivation, though wholly worked with the hoe and the spade, both of them of a primitiveness that might have come down from Bible times; rare it is to see a horse or a harrow on these "bouquets of verdure surrounded by waves." Near Oudon is one of those monumental follies which one comes across now and then in most foreign countries: a great edifice which serves no useful purpose, and which, were it not for certain redeeming features, would be a sorry thing indeed.

Before coming to Nantes, Ancenis and Oudon should claim the attention of the traveller, though each is not much more than a typically interesting small town of France, in spite of the memories of the past.