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A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 Anne Plumptre

A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 By Anne Plumptre

A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 by Anne Plumptre

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The writer and translator Anne Plumptre (1760-1818) published this three-volume description of three years' residence in France in 1810. Volume 1 describes her stay in Paris (where she was accidentally locked in the ruins of the Bastille at nightfall), and her journey to Marseilles via Lyons.

A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 Summary

A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805: Including Some Authentic Particulars Respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor, and a General Inquiry into his Character by Anne Plumptre

The writer and translator Anne Plumptre (1760-1818) and her sister Annabella, also a writer, divided their time between Norwich and London, where they moved in radical and dissenting circles. Anne also travelled abroad, publishing this three-volume description of three years' residence in France in 1810. (Her 1817 volume on Ireland is also reissued in this series.) Like many other Britons, Plumptre took the opportunity of the Peace of Amiens to visit post-revolutionary France, and she stayed in the country until hostilities recommenced in 1805. Sympathetic to the revolution, she intended to examine for herself the state of the country and its people, and compare her first-hand impressions (especially of Napoleon) with the generally hostile information about France then currently available in Britain. Volume 1 describes her stay in Paris (where she was accidentally locked in the ruins of the Bastille at nightfall), and her journey to Marseilles via Lyons.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Departure from London; 2. Stay at Calais; 3. Different entrances to Paris; 4. Public buildings in Paris; 5. The palais-royal; 6. On the theatres at Paris; 7. The Opera comique; 8. Public gardens at Paris; 9. Monsieur Geoffroi; 10. The jardin de plantes; 11. On the abolition of monarchy and religion in France; 12. Further remarks on the state of religion in France; 13. Interest excited by the situation in France; 14. Different classes; 15. Fetes of the fourteenth of July and the fifteenth of August; 16. The exposition at the Louvre; 17. St Cloud; 18. Route from Paris to Lyons; 19. The city of Lyons; 20. The devastation of the city of Lyons; 21. The college of the Oratoire at Lyons; 22. Account of the prisons at Lyons; 23. Account of the prisons of Lyons (cont.); 24. Account of the prisons of Lyons (cont.); 25. Account of the prisons of Lyons (cont.); 26. Route from Lyons to Avignon; 27. Avignon; 28. Different routes to Vaucluse; 29. Villeneuve; 30. Beaucaire.

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NLS9781108081016
9781108081016
1108081010
A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805: Including Some Authentic Particulars Respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor, and a General Inquiry into his Character by Anne Plumptre
Anne Plumptre
Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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Cambridge University Press
2015-04-02
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