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The British in France : visitors and residents since the Revolution / / Peter Thorold



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Autore: Thorold Peter Visualizza persona
Titolo: The British in France : visitors and residents since the Revolution / / Peter Thorold Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
Disciplina: 944.0042
944.00421
944/.0042
Soggetto topico: British - France - History - 19th century
British - France - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: France Social life and customs
France Relations Great Britain
Great Britain Relations France
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Countless 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 Briti
Titolo autorizzato: The British in France  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-87621-X
9786612876219
1-4411-8088-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821003703321
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