The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . leasure of travelling through new countries, and studying the manners and customs of the inhabitants. Those who had expatriated themselves for the purpose of making their fortune more rapidly than they could hope to do at home, returned to France as soon as they had saved up enough to ensure them a modest competence. This is how it was that throuo-hout Europe, and we may say the world, certain trades were o-enerally in the hands of Frenchmen, whose only thought was to o-row rich and return home. The actors, barber
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . leasure of travelling through new countries, and studying the manners and customs of the inhabitants. Those who had expatriated themselves for the purpose of making their fortune more rapidly than they could hope to do at home, returned to France as soon as they had saved up enough to ensure them a modest competence. This is how it was that throuo-hout Europe, and we may say the world, certain trades were o-enerally in the hands of Frenchmen, whose only thought was to o-row rich and return home. The actors, barbers, milliners, musicians, and, we must also add, the adventurers, were generally of French and even Parisian origin. So at least the Flemish, Swiss, Piedmontese, and natives of Brabant dubbed themselves. Rousseau asserts in Emile, that only four classes of persons take long journeys,—sailors, merchants, soldiers, and missionaries. We cannot expect that either of the three former classes should supply acute observers. J. J. Rousseau does not allude to many other categories of. ENTRY Of KING LOU IS XV. INTO Sl-RASCURU IN .744- TRAVEL. 435 French travellers who visited, at least once in their lifetime, Italy, orSwitzerland, or Holland, or Germany, or England. These consistedof young men belonging to rich families, whose parents sent them,accompanied by a tutor, to complete their education ; of piouspersons undertaking pilgrimages which were most frequent in jubileeyears; of artists, and lovers of art, who also made a pilgrimage intoItaly, but from different motives ; of the admirers of nature, theveritable tourists, in search of picturesque and wild scenery, ofmountains, glaciers, and torrents. But the number of travellerswas nevertheless very far below what it now is. J. J. Rousseau,who was himself one of the most enthusiastic admirers of nature,thus alludes to the tastes of Englishmen and of Frenchmen fortravel: Of all the nations in the world, the Frenchman is thefondest of tr
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