Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
Author(s): Arthur Young
Genre(s): Travel & Geography, Memoirs, Early Modern
Narrators: Pamela Nagami
Number of Chapters: 34
Length: 14 hours and 43 minutes
Language: English
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst of the French Revolution. His report on life in the capital and in the countryside in the years 1787, 1788, and 1789, replete with droll traveler's mishaps, becomes an eyewitness account of a society on the brink of catastrophe. From the court scene at Versailles to backroads villages comes this astonishing record of unfolding events, conspiracy theories about the queen, jubilation, and mass hysteria. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)
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The audiobook Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 falls under the genres of Travel & Geography, Memoirs, Early Modern. It is written by Arthur Young.