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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe, Volume 3
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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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