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

The writer and translator Anne Plumptre published this three-volume description of her experiences in post-revolutionary France in 1810.

Anne Plumptre (Author)

9781108081016, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2015

476 pages, 1 map
21.7 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.61 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]