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
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- Author: Anne Plumptre
- Date Published: April 2015
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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.
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- Date Published: April 2015
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108081047
- length: 1418 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 152 x 89 mm
- weight: 1.79kg
- contains: 1 map
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
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.
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