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Travelogues
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Travels are one of the sources of history: by the narratives of travelers the history of foreign nations is placed beside the particular history of each country," wrote François-René de Chateaubriand in the preface to his Travels in America (1836)
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― The Grand Tour: The Golden Age of Travel
― The Grand Tour: The Golden Age of Travel
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Books devoted to France and its various regions became increasingly popular toward the later part of the July Monarchy. This growing preoccupation with France itself—perhaps best exemplified in the novels of George Sand—was a complex phenomenon, related at once to romantic nationalism, to improving communications within France, and to the retreat, after the 1830 revolution, of the legitimist nobility to their country estates, which contributed to making the countryside fashionable.
Though by no
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― The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848
― The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848
