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Title: The Stranger in France
or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by
Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.

Author: John Carr

Release Date: January 6, 2007 [EBook #20296]

Language: English

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THE
STRANGER IN FRANCE:

OR,
A TOUR FROM DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS.

ILLUSTRATED BY
ENGRAVINGS IN AQUA TINTA

OF
SKETCHES, TAKEN ON THE SPOT,

BY

JOHN CARR, Esq.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
SOLD ALSO BY W. HANNAFORD, TOTNES.

_Bryer, Printer, Bridge Street, Black Friars._

1803.

PREFACE.

The little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was taken
immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace,
necessary, but not inglorious to my country, after a contest unexampled
in its cause, calamity, extension, vicissitudes and glory; amidst a
people who, under the influence of a political change, hitherto
unparallelled, were to be approached as an order of beings, exhibiting a
moral and political form before but little known to themselves and to
the world, in the abrupt removal of habits and sentiments which had
silently and uninterruptedly taken deep root in the soil of ages.

During a separation of ten years, we have received very little account
of this extraordinary people, which could be relied upon. Dissimilar
sensations, excited by their principles and proceedings, ever partially
and irregularly known, have depicted unaccording representations of
them, and, in the sequel, have exhibited rather a high-c