A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 3 Volume Set - Anne Plumptre

A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805 3 Volume Set

Including Some Authentic Particulars Respecting the Early Life of the French Emperor, and a General Inquiry into his Character

Anne Plumptre (Autor)

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1418 Seiten
2015
Cambridge University Press
978-1-108-08104-7 (ISBN)
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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, and journey south; Volume 2 is based at Marseilles, and Volume 3 covers her return to England via Bordeaux and Brittany.
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, and journey south; Volume 2 is based at Marseilles, and Volume 3 covers her return to England via Bordeaux and Brittany.

Volume 1: 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 Opéra comique; 8. Public gardens at Paris; 9. Monsieur Géoffroi; 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. Volume 2: 1. Marseilles; 2. Marseilles, the old and new town; 3. The abbey of St Victor; 4. The convent of the Chartreux; 5. The forts of St Nicholas and St John; 6. The battery of the Farot; 7. The column to Bonaparte; 8. Great change made in Marseilles by the revolution; 9. State of alarm during the reign of terror; 10. Instances of abuses; 11. Soap manufactory at Marseilles; 12. Celebration of Christmas and New-Year's-Day; 13. English ladies settled at Marseilles; 14. The bastides about Marseilles; 15. Monsieur Barthelemy; 16. The Fete-Dieu at Aix; 17. The Fete-Dieu at Marseilles; 18. Excursion to Toulon; 19. Toulon; 20. Excursion to the Sainte Beaume; 21. Aix founded by the Romans; 22. The Hotel-de-ville; 23. The hospitals; 24. The courts of law at Aix; 25. The Tolonet; 26. The mountain of Sainte Victoire; 27. On the climate and productions of Provence; 28. On the character of the Provencaux. Volume 3: 1. Departure from Nismes; 2. Stay at Montpellier; 3. Departure from Montpellier; 4. Stay at Toulouse; 5. Departure from Toulouse; 6. From Moissac to Bordeaux; 7. Striking situation of Bordeaux; 8. Departure from Bordeaux; 9. Nantes; 10. Morlaix; 11. Superstition among the Bretons; 12. Affinity between the Bretons and the Welch and Irish; 13. Fondness of the Bretons for stories; 14. Other reputed ruins of the city of Is; 15. Resemblance of Bretagne to Devonshire; 16. The character of Bonaparte; 17. Bonaparte (cont.); 18. Further strictures; 19. The opinions of emigrants; 20. The coalitions against Bonaparte; 21. Irritability of Bonaparte's temper; 22. The French not prepared for liberty; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.4.2015
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
Zusatzinfo 1 Maps
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 226 mm
Gewicht 1790 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-08104-5 / 1108081045
ISBN-13 978-1-108-08104-7 / 9781108081047
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