Project Gutenberg's Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone, by John Hughes

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone
Made During the Year 1819

Author: John Hughes

Release Date: March 24, 2007 [EBook #20891]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ITINERARY OF PROVENCE ***

Produced by Carlo Traverso, Chuck Greif and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://dp.rastko.net
(Produced from images of the Bibliotheque nationale de
France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Hughes

South of France

ONLY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED.

"----I informed my friend that I had just received from England a
journal of a tour made in the South of France by a young Oxonian friend
of mine, a poet, a draughtsman, and a scholar--in which he gives such an
animated and interesting description of the Chateau Grignan, the
dwelling of Madame de Sevigne's beloved daughter, and frequently the
place of her own residence, that no one who ever read the book would be
within forty miles of the same without going a pilgrimage to the spot.
The Marquis smiled, seemed very much pleased, and asked the title at
length of the work in question; and writing down to my dictation, 'An
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone made during the year 1819, by John
Hughes, A.M. of Oriel College, Oxford,'--observed, that he could now
purchase no books for the Chateau, but would recommend that the
Itineraire should be commissioned for the Library to which he was abonne
in the neighbouring town,"--_Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward_.

Thomas White, Printer, Johnson's Court.

* * *

ITINERARY

OF

PROVENCE & THE RHONE,

MADE DURING THE YEAR 1819.

BY JOHN HUGHES, M.A.

OF ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD.

[Illustration: J. Hughes Esq. del. W. Woolnoth, SG.
ISLE OF ST. MARGUERITE NEAR CANNES AND PRISON OF MASQUE DE FER.]

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JAMES CAWTHORN.

MD.CCCXXIX.

PREFACE.

IT has been the Author's object to render the following volume a
companion to persons visiting the country described. He has therefore
not so much studied to compile from known books of historical refer