TRAVELS IN FRANCE, 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. IN TWO VOLUMES.
Autor: Alison, Archibald, Sir, 1792-1867; Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 1791-1849, Erscheinungsjahr: 1816
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  1. VOLUME FIRST.
    1. CHAPTER I. - JOURNEY TO PARIS.
    2. CHAPTER II. - PARIS—THE ALLIED ARMIES.
    3. CHAPTER III. - PARIS—ITS PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
    4. CHAPTER IV. - ENVIRONS OF PARIS.
    5. CHAPTER V. - PARIS—THE LOUVRE.
    6. CHAPTER VI. - PARIS—THE FRENCH CHARACTER AND MANNERS.
    7. CHAPTER VII. - PARIS—THE THEATRES.
    8. CHAPTER VIII. - PARIS—THE FRENCH ARMY AND IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.
    9. CHAPTER IX. - JOURNEY TO FLANDERS.
  2. VOLUME II.
    1. CHAPTER I. - JOURNEY TO AIX.
    2. JOURNAL.
      1. As our present journey was undertaken principally for the benefit of my health,...
      2. We left Montargis at seven in the morning, and travelled very slowly indeed. ...
      3. We have arrived at Cosne to-night, (the 11th), after a journey through a country better wooded, ...
      4. This day's journey (the 12th), was the most fatiguing and the least interesting we have had. ...
      5. We went to walk in the town this morning, the 13th.
      6. This day we left Nevers at six in the morning. It appears to be a large town, ...
      7. It was near eight o'clock this morning, the 16th, before we got under weigh,...
      8. We left Varrenes this morning, at six o'clock, and entered on a new country, ...
      9. Thursday, 17th. —The road to-day was through ranges of hills, and, ...
      10. This morning, we set off, as usual, at six, and only made out in five hours a distance of 16 miles, ...
      11. Saturday, 18th.—We left the inn at the half-way village, whose name I forgot to ask,
      12. This day, Monday the 20th, we left Lyons at one o'clock in the forenoon, travelling ...
      13. We had a miserable lodging at this vile inn, (Hotel du Parc at Vienne.) ...
      14. Wednesday, the 22d.—We left St Vallier at half past six in the morning, ...
      15. Thursday, the 23d.—We left St Valence well enough pleased with our lodging ...
      16. Our journey to-day (Friday the 24th) though rather more rapid, was not by any means comfortable....
      17. Saturday, the 25th.—We left Orange at half past six. Our road to-day lay through ...
      18. Sunday, the 26th,—We left Orgon, as usual, at six o'clock, and travelled before ...
    3. CHAPTER II. - RESIDENCE AT AIX, AND JOURNEY TO BOURDEAUX.
      1. Monday, the 27th.—Having been employed the whole day in searching for ...
      2. 15th.—All possibility of continuing this little Journal is precluded by the ...
      3. Friday, the 10th.- Saturday, the 11th. - Sunday, the 12th. - Monday, the 13th.
      4. Thursday, the 16th.—We have determined now to run the risk of travelling ...
      5. Friday, the 17th of April.—Our leaving Aix this morning was really melancholy. ...
      6. Sunday, 19th.—We left Nismes at six o'clock this morning,...
      7. Monday, 20th April.—We have better news to-day; letters from the Duke ...
      8. Tuesday, 21st April.—We left Montpellier at five in the morning, ...
      9. Wednesday, 22d.—Left Pezenas at half past five, and arrived to breakfast ...
      10. Thursday, 23d. - Friday, 24th. - Saturday, the 25th. - Sunday, 26th.
      11. Monday, the 27th.—We are now gliding down the Garonne with the utmost rapidity and steadiness. ...
      12. Tuesday, the 28th. - Wednesday morning, the 29th. - Thursday, the 30th.
      13. Friday, the 31st.—We set off accordingly at sunrise, before any one was abroad in the street...
      14. We embarked, this morning, Saturday, the 1st, on board the William Sibbald, after a night of troubles.
    4. CHAPTER III. - STATE OP FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON. - To trace, with accuracy, the effects of the revolution and of the military despotism of Napoleon on the kingdom of France, it would be necessary to attend to the following subjects:—the state of commerce—wealth of the nation, and division of this wealth—the state of agriculture—the condition of the towns and villages—of the noblesse and their property—the condition of the lower ranks, namely, the merchants, tradesmen, artificers, peasants, poor, and beggars—the state of private and public manners—the dress of the people—their amusements—the state of religion and morality—of criminal delinquency and the administration of justice.
      1. But to treat all these different subjects, and to diverge into the necessary observations ...
      2. Napoleon was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, not, as is generally supposed, in August 1769, but in February 1768. ...
    5. CHAPTER IV. - STATE OF FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON—CONTINUED.
      1. AGRICULTURE.
      2. COMMERCE.
      3. WEALTH OF THE NATION AND ITS DIVISION.
      4. STATE OF RELIGION.
      5. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
    6. CHAPTER V. - MODERN FRENCH CHARACTER AND MANNERS.
      1. An Englishman never dreams of entering into conversation without some previous knowledge upon the point which is the subject of discussion.
    7. REGISTER OF THE WEATHER.
    8. FOOTNOTES
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.