Vol. I. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
France of To-day
A Survey, Comparative and Retrospective.
To be completed in Two Volumes. Sold separately.
By M. BETHAM EDWARDS,
Officier de L'Instruction Publique de France.
Editor of Arthur Young's 'Travels in France.'
Contents of Vol. I.
Introductory. Part I.—Provinces: Bourbonnais, Auvergne, Velay, Languedoc, Pyrenees. Part II.—Provinces: Anjou, Poitou, Gascoigne, Berry. Part III.—Alsace-Lorraine. Part IV.—Franche-Comté, Burgundy, Le Morvan. Appendix. Index.
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'No living English writer, perhaps no living French writer, has a more intimate acquaintance than Miss Betham Edwards with France and the French. Like Arthur Young in the last century, she has wandered throughout the whole length and breadth of the country, and she adds to that writer's faculty of observation, broader sympathies and a greater range of intellectual cultivation. Her "France of To-day" is a delightful book, setting forth the French peasant and the French bourgeois as they are, naught extenuating nor aught setting down in malice.'—Daily News.
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