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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

Volume 3

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe

  • Date Published: April 2015
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108081030

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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 3 describes Plumptre's travels through western France on her way home, and ends with a long section on the character and deeds of Napoleon.

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    • Date Published: April 2015
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108081030
    • length: 462 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 26 mm
    • weight: 0.58kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    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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    Anne Plumptre

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