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A tour through part of France, Containing a description of Paris, Cherbourg, and Ermenonville; with a rhapsody, composed at the tomb of Rousseau. In a series of letters.
Monckton, G.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The gentleman's guide in his tour through France. Wrote by an officer, Who lately travelled on a Principle which he most sincerely recommends to his Countrymen, viz. Not to spend more Money in the Country of our natural Enemy, than is requisite to support, with Decency, the Character of an Englishman.
Playstowe, Philip.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Remarks in the grand tour of France and Italy. Perform'd by a person of quality, in the year, 1691.
Bromley, William, 1664-1732.Date: 1705- Books
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A year's journey through France, and part of Spain. By Philip Thicknesse.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities, With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Notes of a journey from Berne to England, through France. Made in the year 1796. By A. D
Douglas, Andrew, 1736-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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The omnium; containing the journal of a late three days tour into France; curious and extraordinary anecdotes; critical remarks; and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse. By William Clubbe, LL. B. Vicar Of Brandeston, Suffolk.
Clubbe, William, 1745-1814.Date: 1798- Books
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Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A Residence in France, during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795; described in a series of letters from an English lady: with general and incidental remarks on the French character and manners. Prepared for the press by John Gifford, Esq. author of The history of France, Letter to Lord Lauderdale, Letter to the Hon. T. Erskine, &c.
Date: 1798- Books
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The tour of Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France ; in which is included a description of Paris and its Environs. A new edition, corrected and improved, with a map of Holland and the Netherlands from the last surveys.
Peckham, Harry, -1787.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Travels through Spain, in the years 1775 and 1776. In which several monuments of Roman and Moorish architecture are illustrated by accurate drawings taken on the spot. By Henry Swinburne, Esq. ...
Swinburne, Henry, 1743-1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A true and authentick narrative of the action between the Northumberland and three French men of war. Describ'd in all its Circumstances. With an Account of the Behaviour of Captain Watson, and certain Persons on that Occasion. Also a Relation of the Usage the English Prisoners met with in France, and a Description of that Country and People. By an Eye-Witness.
Eye-witness.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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The gentleman's guide, in a tour Through Part of France and Flanders; containing a particular description of Calais, Ardres, Boulogne, St. Omers, Aire, Mardyke, and Dunkirk; wherein is described the particular Ceremonies of the Nuns, taking the Veil; Copies of their Vows, their Times of Prayer, Form of their electing a Superior; Manner of their celebrating particular Days; with a full and compleat Account of the Capuchins, Minims, and Benedictines. Also an account of the coins and current money, with their respective Value in French and English. Directions for Travelling, both by Land and Water, with the necessary Expence of each. The whole calculated to shew the religious and other customs of the French nation, guard against their Impositions; and to serve as an Instructive Guide to the Gentleman in his Tour.
Date: 1776- Books
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Remarks on several parts of France, Italy, &c. in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785. By Benjamin Hobhouse, barrister at law.
Hobhouse, Benjamin, Sir, c1757-1831.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Entertaining extracts: being a select collection, from new books of merit. Embellished with six beautiful engravings, by eminent artists.
Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris. Containing, a description of the kingdom of France. - The customs, manners, polity, science, commerce, and agriculture of the inhabitants -Its ancient form of Government, and the new - Particulars concerning the Royal Family - Causes of the late Revolution - Proceedings and Decrees of the National Assembly - An Account of the Destruction of the Bastille, and of many dreadful Commotions which have happened in the Nation - With a minute Detail of the late grand Proceedings at the Champ de Mars. - The whole interspersed with a Variety of Reflections, humourous, moral, critical, and philosophical. After which is delineated, a new constitution: with a description of the road to liberty.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The tour of Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France; in which is included a description of Paris And Its Environs.
Peckham, Harry, -1787.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Letters and observations, written in a short tour through France and Italy. By a gentleman.
Beckford, Peter, 1740-1811.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A short ramble through some parts of France and Italy. By Lancelot Temple, Esq.
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: 1794- Books
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Travels through France and Italy. In two volumes. Containing observations on Character, Customs, Religion, Government, Police, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. By T. Smollett, M.D. ...
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789, undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France. ... By Arthur Young, ... In two volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: 1793- Books
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Travels through France and Spain, in the years 1770 and 1771. In which is particularly minuted, the present state of those countries, respecting the agriculture, population, manufactures, commerce, the arts, and useful undertakings. By Joseph Marshall, Esq. Vol. IV.
Marshall, Joseph.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Remarks on the letters, concerning the English and French. Describing the character and customs of the English and French nations. Also upon the essay on travelling. By gentlemen of the English and French nations. With a complete index. Translated from the French.
Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot, 1685-1745.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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A tour through the western, southern, and interior provinces of France; by N.W. Wraxall, Esq.
Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751-1831.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]