Rambles in Brittany

Description

THE regard which every one has for the old French provinces is by no means inexplicable. Out of them grew the present solidarity of republican France, but in spite of it the old limits
of demarcation are not yet expunged. One and all retain to-day their individual characteristics, manners, and customs, and also a certain subconscious atmosphere.
Many are the casual travellers who know Normandy and Brittany, at least know them by name and perhaps something more, but how many of those who annually skim across France,
in summer to Switzerland and in winter to the Riviera or to Italy, there to live in seven-franca-day pensions, and drink a particularly vile brand of tea, know where Brittany leaves off and
Normandy begins, or have more than the vaguest of vague notions as to whether the charming little provincial capital of Nantes, on the Loire, is in Brittany or in Poitou. A
recollection of their school-day knowledge of history will help them on the latter point, but geography will come in and puzzle them still more. There are many French writers, and painters for that matter, who have made these provinces famous. Napoleon, perhaps, set the fashion, when he wrote, in 1786, that eulogy beginning: "It is now six or seven years since I left my native country." More familiar is the "Native
Land" of Lamartine. Camille Flammarion wrote "My Cradle," meaning Champagne; Dumas wrote of Villers-Cotterets, and Chateaubriand and Renan of Brittany; but head and shoulders
above them all stand out Frederic Mistral and his fellows of the Félibres at Avignon and
Arles.

Détails

Auteur: Milburg F Mansfield

Editeur: CULTUREA

Format: Broché

Date de parution: 07 Février 2024

Nombre de pages: 118

Poids: 220

Dimensions: 17 x 22 x 0,9

Prix publique: 15,90 €

Information complémentaires

Classification: Livres pratiques > Tourisme, Guides et Monographies > Albums et beaux livres et carnets de voyages (paysages, pays, villes, lieux, voyages)

Code Classification: 3802 > 3803 > 3820

EAN-13: 9791041984862