Produced by Carlo Traverso, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://dp.rastko.net (Produced from images of the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Hughes South of France ONLY TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED. "----I informed my friend that I had just received from England a journal of a tour made in the South of France by a young Oxonian friend of mine, a poet, a draughtsman, and a scholar--in which he gives such an animated and interesting description of the Chateau Grignan, the dwelling of Madame de Sevigne's beloved daughter, and frequently the place of her own residence, that no one who ever read the book would be within forty miles of the same without going a pilgrimage to the spot. The Marquis smiled, seemed very much pleased, and asked the title at length of the work in question; and writing down to my dictation, 'An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone made during the year 1819, by John Hughes, A.M. of Oriel College, Oxford,'--observed, that he could now purchase no books for the Chateau, but would recommend that the Itineraire should be commissioned for the Library to which he was abonne in the neighbouring town,"--_Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward_. Thomas White, Printer, Johnson's Court. * * * ITINERARY OF PROVENCE & THE RHONE, MADE DURING THE YEAR 1819. BY JOHN HUGHES, M.A. OF ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD. [Illustration: J. Hughes Esq. del. W. Woolnoth, SG. ISLE OF ST. MARGUERITE NEAR CANNES AND PRISON OF MASQUE DE FER.] SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JAMES CAWTHORN. MD.CCCXXIX. PREFACE. IT has been the Author's object to render the following volume a companion to persons visiting the country described. He has therefore not so much studied to compile from known books of historical reference, as to answer those plain and practical questions which suggest themselves during an actual journey, and to enable those whose time is limited, and who wish to employ it actively, to form the necessary calculations as to what is to be seen and done. The best points of view, and the parts which may be passed over rapidly, are therefore specified, as well as the places where good accommodation are to be expected, or imposition to be guarded against. The subjects of the Illustrations will be mentioned in the course of the Itinerary, for the information of collectors, of whose notice it is trusted they will be rendered worthy by the well-known talents of Mr. Dewint and the Messrs. Cookes. CONTENTS. CHAP. I.--Paris to Rochepot CHAP. II.--Rochepot to Lyons CHAP. III.--Lyons CHAP. IV.--Lyons to Montelimart CHAP. V.--Chateau Grignan CHAP. VI.--Orange--Avignon CHAP. VII.--Avignon--Murder of Brune--Hopital des Fous--Mission of 1819 CHAP. VIII.--Pont du Gard--Nismes--Montpelier--Cette CHAP. IX.--Tarascon--Beaucaire--St. Remy--Orgon--Lambesc CHAP. X.--Aix--Marseilles CHAP. XI.--Ollioules--Toulon CHAP. XII.--Frejus--Cannes--Isle of St. Marguerite--Antibes