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Title: Three Years in Europe
Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

Author: William Wells Brown

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Language: English

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THREE YEARS IN EUROPE;

Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

by

W. WELLS BROWN
A Fugitive Slave.

With

A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR

by

WILLIAM FARMER, Esq.

London:
Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopsgate Street, Without.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

1852

[Illustration: W. Wells Brown.]

CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, _Page_ ix-xxix

AUTHOR'S PREFACE, xxxi-xxxii

LETTER I.

Departure from Boston--the Passengers--Halifax--the Passage--
First Sight of Land--Liverpool, 1-9

LETTER II.

Trip to Ireland--Dublin--Her Majesty's Visit--Illumination of the
City--the Birth-Place of Thomas Moore--a Reception, 9-21

LETTER III.

Departure from Ireland--London--Trip to Paris--Paris--The Peace
Congress: first day--Church of the Madeleine--Column Vendome--
the French, 21-38

LETTER IV.

Versailles--The Palace--Second Session of the Congress--Mr.
Cobden--Henry Vincent--M. Girardin--Abbe Duguerry--Victor Hugo:
his Speech, 38-49

LETTER V.

M. de Tocqueville's Grand Soiree--Madame de Tocqueville--Visit of
the Peace Delegates to Versailles--The Breakfast--Speechmaking--
The Trianons--Waterworks--St. Cloud--The