Travels in France during the years 1814-15

TRAVELS IN FRANCE,

Reading edition

DURING THE YEARS

1814-15.

comprising a

RESIDENCE AT PARIS DURING THE STAY OF THE ALLIED ARMIES,

and

AT AIX,

AT THE PERIOD OF THE LANDING OF

BONAPARTE.

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.

EDINBURGH:

printed for macredie, skelly, and muckersy, 52. prince's street; longman, hurst. rees, orme, and brown; black, parry, and co. t. underwood, london; and j. cumming, dublin.

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1816.

Transcriber's note: The original spellings have been maintained; the French spelling and accentuation have not been corrected, but left as they appear in the original.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A Second Edition of the following Work having been demanded by the Booksellers, the Author has availed himself of the opportunity to correct many verbal inaccuracies, to add some general reflections, and to alter materially those parts of it which were most hastily prepared for the press, particularly the Journal in the Second Volume, by retrenching a number of particulars of partial interest, and substituting more general observations on the state of the country, supplied by his own recollection and that of his fellow-travellers.

He has only farther to repeat here, what he stated in the Advertisement to the first Edition, that the whole materials of the Publication were collected in France, partly by himself, during a residence which the state of his health had made adviseable in Provence, and partly by some friends who had preceded him in their visit to France, and were at Paris during the time when it was first occupied by the Allied Armies;—and that he has submitted it to the world, merely in the hope of adding somewhat to the general stock of information regarding the situation, character, and prospects of the French people, which it is so desirable that the English Public should possess.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

CHAPTER I.Journey to Paris

II.Paris—The Allied Armies

III.Paris—Its Public Buildings

IV.Environs of Paris

V.Paris—The Louvre

VI.Paris—The French Character and Manners

VII.Paris—The Theatres

VIII.Paris—The French Army and Imperial Government

IX.Journey to Flanders

VOL. II.

CHAPTER I.Journey to Aix

II.Residence at Aix, and Journey to Bourdeaux

III.State of France under Napoleon—Anecdotes of him

IV.State of France under Napoleon—continued

V.State of Society and Manners in France