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Arthur Young's Travels in France - During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (Paperback)
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Arthur Young's Travels in France - During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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This work was first published in 1793 by the agricultural expert
Arthur Young (1741-1820). In addition to farming, he describes the
scenery, roads, inns, manners, and - more significantly - examples
both of wealth and poverty. Despite describing some servants he
encountered in an inn as 'walking dunghills', he was acutely aware
of the grinding poverty of the rural poor, noting the excesses of
the ruling class, and ascribing to bad government the striking
differences he found between the lives of working people in France
and England. Hearing of the fall of the Bastille whilst in
Strasbourg, he recognised it as presaging either a new constitution
or 'inextricable confusions and civil war'. This centennial edition
includes an account of recent journeys made by the editor, noting
the changes seen since Young's original work. The work remains one
of the most fascinating and valuable sources for understanding the
conditions of pre-revolutionary rural France.
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