Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE, AND IN THE INTERIOR OF THE PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC, IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808, BY A ROUTE NEVER BEFORE PERFORMED, BEING ALONG THE BANKS OF THE LOIRE, THE ISERE, AND THE GARONNE, THROUGH THE GREATER PART OF THEIR COURSE. MADE BY PERMISSION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PINKNEY, OF THE NORTH AMERICAN NATIVE RANGERS. _LONDON_: PRINTED FOR T. PURDAY AND SON, NO. 1, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS: BY B. McMILLAN, BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1809. CONTENTS. CHAP. I. _Anxiety to see France--Departure from Baltimore--Singular Adventures of the Captain--Character--Employment during the Voyage--Arrival at Liverpool--Stay--Departure for Calais_ CHAP. II. _Morning View of Port--Arrival and landing--A Day at Calais--French Market, and Prices of Provisions_ CHAP. III. _Purchase of a Norman Horse--Visit in the Country--Family of a French Gentleman--Elegance of French domestic Economy--Dance on the Green--Return to Calais_ CHAP. IV. _French Cottages--Ludicrous Exhibition--French Travellers--Chaise de Poste--Posting in France--Departure from Calais--Beautiful Vicinity of Boulogne_ CHAP. V. _Boulogne--Dress of the Inhabitants--The Pier--Theatre--Caution in the Exchange of Money--Beautiful Landscape, and Conversation with a French Veteran_--_Character of Mr. Parker's Hotel_--_Departure, and romantic Road_--_Fete Champetre in a Village on a Hill at Montreuil_--_Ruined Church and Convent_, CHAP. VI. _Departure from Montreuil_--_French Conscripts_--_Extreme Youth_--_Excellent Roads_--_Country Labourers_--_Court for the Claims of Emigrants_--_Abbeville_--_Companion on the Road_--_Amiens_, CHAP. VII. _General Character of the Town_--_Public Walk_--_Gardens_--_Half-yearly Fair_--_Gaining Houses_--_Table d'Hotes_--_English at Amiens_--_Expence of Living_, CHAP. VIII. _French and English Roads compared_--_Gaiety of French Labourers_--_Breteuil_--_Apple-trees in the midst of Corn-fields_--_Beautiful Scenery_--_Cheap Price of Land in France_--_Clermont_--_Bad Management of the French Farmers_--_Chantilly_-_Arrival at Paris_, CHAP. IX. _A Week in Paris_--_Objects and Occurrences_--_National Library_--_A French Rout_--_Fashionable French Supper_--_Conceits_--_Presentation at Court_--_Audience_, CHAP. X. _Departure from Paris for the Loire_--_Breakfast at Palaiseau_--_A Peasant's Wife_--_Rambouillet_--_Magnificent Chateau_--_French Cure_--_Chartres_--_Difference of Old French and English Towns--Subterraneous Church_--_Curious Preservation of the Dead_--_Angers_--_Arrival at Nantes_, CHAP. XI.