France - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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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, Tobias George, 1721-1771.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- E-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, Tobias George, 1721-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- E-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. In two volumes.
English LadyDate: 1797- E-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, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary Member of the Societies of Dublin, Bath, York, Salford, and Odiham; the Philosophical and Literary Society of Manchester; the Veterinary College of London; the Oeconomical Society of Berne; the Physical Society of Zurich; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; the Imperial Oeconomical Society established at Petersburgh; Associate of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Paris; and Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Florence; and of the Patriotic Society at Milan.
Arthur YoungDate: MDCCXCII. [1792]- E-books
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A tour through the western, southern, and interior provinces of France , in a series of letters ; by N. Wraxall, Jun. Esq.
Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751-1831.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]