A Frenchman's year in Suffolk : French impressions of Suffolk life in 1784 : including a preliminary week in London, brief visits to Cambridge, Colchester, Mistley and Harwich and a fortnight's tour of Norfolk

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A Frenchman's year in Suffolk : French impressions of Suffolk life in 1784 : including a preliminary week in London, brief visits to Cambridge, Colchester, Mistley and Harwich and a fortnight's tour of Norfolk

translated and edited by Norman Scarfe and with a foreword by Edmée de La Rochefoucauld

(Suffolk Records Society, v. 30)

Boydell Press, 1988

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Mélanges sur l'Angleterre

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"The Mélanges sur l'Angleterre of François de la Rochefoucauld, supplemented by the journaux de voyage of Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld and the lettres à un ami of their companion, Maximilien de Lazowski."

Includes index

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When Francois de la Rochefoucauld, and his brother Alexandre visited Suffolk in 1784, the events which were to lead to the French Revolution in 1789 were already in train. Francois' father, the duc de Liancourt, Grand Master of the Wardrobe at Louis XVI's court, was well placed to appreciate the dangers of the situation in France, and it must have been with anxious hopefulness that he sent his sons (Francois was then 18) to England for a year to appreciatethe ordering of these things in a country which had experienced a revolution over a century earlier. Such reflections are never far below the surface of this otherwise cheerful book, which gives a vivid picture of English provincial life in a good year. Francois' observations range over such diverse subjects as English customs and manners and methods of agriculture and stockbreeding, and include a lively account of a general election. The spirited translation is complemented by numerous illustrations.

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