Included in this region is not only medieval France west of Rhone/Saone and north of Bordeaux, but also Flanders. The main node in France is Paris, from where routes head SW to the important shrine of St Martin at Tours (via Chartres or Orleans) and on to Bordeaux, SE to Lyon via the Loire valley, and E to Troyes and the Saone valley via St Seine l'Abbaye.
Although Vézelay was an important shrine in the 12th and 13th centuries, playing a prominent role in the Crusades and featuring in Matthew Paris on an alternative route between Paris and Beaune, it declined in the later Middle Ages in favour of St Maximin and is not mentioned in the later inventories. The Codex Calixtinus claims that pilgrims from the NE to Santiago went via Vézelay, but no detailed route is given and there is no evidence for this in the itineraries.
North and east of Paris, the generally flat country of Picardy, Flanders and Champagne is crossed by numerous routes, Arras and Valenciennes, Troyes and Reims being important nodes. Bruges is not only the focal point of the Bruges Itineraries but also on the main road between Calais and Aachen/Cologne.
Two routes are given which lead to the important shrine of Mont-Saint-Michel, from Paris to the east, and from the south via La Rochelle and Nantes. Von Harff is the only traveller who visits Mt St Michel, but the route from Paris is also given in Estienne.
Also included in this region is England, where the London-Canterbury-Dover route listed in Matthew Paris is the only route mentioned.