02763nam 2200625 450 991045944920332120211005181028.01-282-87621-X97866128762191-4411-8088-5(CKB)2670000000055080(EBL)601979(OCoLC)676697628(SSID)ssj0000413227(PQKBManifestationID)11258045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413227(PQKBWorkID)10381100(PQKB)11428949(MiAaPQ)EBC601979(MiAaPQ)EBC5309470(MiAaPQ)EBC3003019(Au-PeEL)EBL3003019(OCoLC)928191624(EXLCZ)99267000000005508020180315h20082008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe British in France visitors and residents since the Revolution /Peter ThoroldLondon, [England] ;New York, [New York] :Continuum,2008.©20081 online resource (292 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84725-234-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on French Names and Translations; Introduction; Chronology of Events; 1 The False Start; 2 Travelling Before the Railways; 3 A Tumultuous Entente; 4 Pau and the Spas; 5 The Transport Revolution; 6 Rosbif and Frog; 7 The Riviera; 8 Babylon; 9 The Atlantic Coast; 10 Displacement; 11 The Rural Idyll; Notes; Bibliography; IndexCountless British visit France each year and over 100,000 live there permanently, successors to generations of their countrymen. This book, starting with the brief and poignant Peace of Amiens, 1801-1803, studies who they were - ranging from businessmen and artisans to rentiers, invalids and tourists - where they went and the reasons why. While some went for fun, to Paris 'where the social arts are carried to perfection' or to Monte Carlo, Biarritz or Deauville, the invalids favoured the Pyrenees or Savoy, making Pau the 'ville anglaise'. Bordeaux was an example of another town where the BritiBritishFranceHistory19th centuryBritishFranceHistory20th centuryElectronic books.BritishHistoryBritishHistory944.0042944.00421944/.0042Thorold Peter1050966MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459449203321The British in France2481160UNINA