Arthur Young's Travels in France: During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789George Bell and Sons, 1906 - 366 pages |
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... English occupation , and derived by some authorities from " shank , " is naturally discarded as the morass is transformed into solid ground . Six hundred thousand hectares of Landes planted with sea - pines produce resin to the annual ...
... English occupation , and derived by some authorities from " shank , " is naturally discarded as the morass is transformed into solid ground . Six hundred thousand hectares of Landes planted with sea - pines produce resin to the annual ...
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... English market . Ah ! those English , those English , they monopolize everything : our best fruit , and the island of Cyprus . " The rich red rose , erroneously called Provence rose , was in reality introduced here by the Crusaders ...
... English market . Ah ! those English , those English , they monopolize everything : our best fruit , and the island of Cyprus . " The rich red rose , erroneously called Provence rose , was in reality introduced here by the Crusaders ...
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... English traveller in the Rhine provinces just a hundred years ago , without some change of feeling ? — " In Saverne , " writes Arthur Young in 1789 , " I found myself to all appearances in Germany . Looking at a map of France and ...
... English traveller in the Rhine provinces just a hundred years ago , without some change of feeling ? — " In Saverne , " writes Arthur Young in 1789 , " I found myself to all appearances in Germany . Looking at a map of France and ...
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... English folk have never so much as heard the author's name , it is familiar to every schoolboy in France . The Suffolk squire's scathing summing - up of the ancien régime , Whenever you stumble upon a grand seigneur , even one that is ...
... English folk have never so much as heard the author's name , it is familiar to every schoolboy in France . The Suffolk squire's scathing summing - up of the ancien régime , Whenever you stumble upon a grand seigneur , even one that is ...
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... English Tours . Will it be believed that just as Cervantes ' half - mad hero set out in search of chivalrous adventure , and Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque , this thrice - ruined farmer deter- mined to explore the entire ...
... English Tours . Will it be believed that just as Cervantes ' half - mad hero set out in search of chivalrous adventure , and Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque , this thrice - ruined farmer deter- mined to explore the entire ...
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