Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II vol 5

Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040289860
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of Three Years’ Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805, vol. I
• A Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in France
• Preface
• Contents
• Chap. I. Departure from London and Arrival at Dover. —Passage to Calais
• II. Stay at Calais.—Monsieur Mengaud.—The Bureau de Police.—The Harbour.—Remarks on travelling post in France.—Departure from Calais.—Boulogne.—Bernay.— Amiens.— Chantilly
• III. Different Entrances to Paris.—The Hôtel d’Angleterre. —The Museum of the Louvre.—The Museum of French Monuments.—The National Library
• IV. Public Buildings in Paris.—The Louvre.—The Thuilleries. —The Place de la Concorde.—The Hôtel des Invalides.— The Churches of Notre—Dame, St. Sulpice, and Sainte Geneviève
• V. The Palais—royal.—The Legislative Body.—The Conservative Senate.—The Odèon.—The Palais.—L’Ecole Militaire. —The Place Vendôme.—The Place de Grève.—The Bridges. The Halle au Blé.—The Markets
• VI. On the Theatres at Paris.—The Grand Opera.—The Théâtre Français—Cursory Remarks on the French Stage. —The rival Actresses Mesdemoiselles Duchesnois and Georges
• VII. The Opéra Comique.—The Théâtre du Vaudeville.— The Théâtre Favart.—Other Theatres.—Order observed at the French Theatres.—Rights of dramatic Authors
• VIII Public Gardens at Paris. — Frascati. — Tivoli. — The Hameau de Chantilly.—Ascent of Madanje Garnerin in a Balloon.—The Boulevards.—The Champs Elysées.—The Carnival. — Longchamp.—The Bois de Boulogne.— Bagatelle
• IX. Monsieur Géoffroi and the Feuilleton des Débats.—On the alleged Decay of Literature in France.—On the Dislike of the French to the Study of Languages.—Monsieur Papon, and his History of the Revolution.—Monsieur Lebon and the Thermolampes
• X. The Jardin des Plantes.—Imprisonment in the Bastille.— The Grand Parade, and Bonaparte. — The Consular Guard
• XI. On the Abolition of Monarchy and Religion in France. —The Procession to Notre—Dame, on Easter Sunday, for the Restoration of public Worship.
• XII. Further Remarks on the State of Religion in France during the Revolution, and on the Attachment of the People to the parochial Clergy, illustrated by several Anecdotes. —Present State of Religion.
• XIII. Interest excited by the Situation of France at the Conclusion of the Peace of Amiens.—Remarks on the Accounts that have been given of Paris, and of the Slate of Society there, by some of the Tourists of 1892
• XIV. Different Classes into which the Society of Paris was diyided.—On the returned Emigrants, and the strange Accounts of England circulated by them
• XV. Fêtes of the Fourteenth of July and the Fifteenth’of August.—Procession at St. Roch on the Fête—Dieu.—Publications relating to the Royal Family.—Republican Terms become a Subject of Ridicule
• XVI. The Exposition at the Louvre.—The Manufactory of the Gobelins.—Various other Manufactories.—Monsieur Gregoire and his Pictures in Velvet.—On the Expenses of living at Paris.—Gaining.—Lotteries
• XVII. St. Cloud.—Versailles.—The Petit Trianon.—Farewell to Paris
• XVIII. Route from Paris to Lyons.—Fontainebleau.—Cosne. —Nevers.—Moulins.—Roanne.—The Hill of Tarare
• XIX. The City of Lyons.—Its Antiquity —The Siege of the City by the Conventional Army in 1793
• XX. The Devastations of the City of Lyons.—The Place Belle—Cour.—The Quay of St. Clair.—The Prison of Pierre En—scize.—The Place des Terreaux.—The Hôtel de Ville. —Destruction of Pictures, Statutes, and Libraries
• XXI. The College of rhe Oratoire at Lyons.—The Monastery of the Chartreux.—The Cathedral Church of St. John.— The Recluseries.—The Travaux Perrache.—The Pont de la Guillotiere.—The Pont Morand.—Festivals at Lyons.—o Climate and Productions of the Lyonnais
• XXII. Account of the Prisons at Lyons.—The Recluses.— The Walk.—The two Criminals.—The Hour of Repast.— Chinard
• XXIII. Account of the Prisons at Lyons continued.—The Song and the Bouts—rimés.—The aged Soubry.—The nocturnal Visit.—Albert Doxa.—The Straw.—The temporary Commission.—The revolutionary Tribunal
• XXIV. Account of the Prisons at Lyons further continued.— Arrests.—The faithful Dog.—The Hall of Judgement.—The Cave of Life.—The Cave of Death
• XXV. Account of the Prisons at Lyons concluded.—Extraordinary Escapes.—Executions.—Funeral Honours
• XXVI. Route from Lyons to Avignon.—Vienne.—Valence.—Montelimart.—Grignan.—Orange.—The Arch of Marius at Orange.—The Revolutionary Tribunal at Orange.— Anecdote respecting the Downfall of Robespierre
• XXVII. Avignon.—The Voituriers—Cession of Avignon to the Papal See.—Palace of the Popes.—The Bridge over the Rhone.—Changes in the Course of the Rhone.—Tomb of Laura de Sade.—The Farandoule
• XXVIII. Different Routes to Vaucluse.—Fine View from Chateauneuf de Gadagne.—Curious Adventure of two English Gentlemen going to Vaucluse.—The Valley and Fountain.—The Village.—Ideas of the Villagers respecting Petrarch and Laura.—Their Pictures.—The Marquis de Caumont.—The Aqueduct of Arles
• XXIX. Villeneuve.—The Chartreux de Villeneuve.—The Pontdu—Gard.—Nistnes. — Its ancient Dimensions.—Its modern ones.—The Roman Amphitheatre.—The Maison Carrée.— The Temple of Diana.—The Roman Baths.—La Tour Magne.—Inscription on the Hospital
• XXX. Beaucaire.—The Bridge of Boats over the Rhone.— The Fair of Beaucaire.—Tarascon.—Tomb of St. Martha. —Procession of the Tarasque.—St. Remi.—Orgon.—Lambesc.—Aix
• Editorial Notes