Excerpt from The Household of the Lafayettes That brilliant world was contained within the gates of Paris. There all the nobles congregated: Paris made their aims; Paris made their pleasures. The roads from the city to the provinces were mere cart-ruts that looked as if a gentil/zomme's coach could never roll along them Unless it were to amuse a Parisian party by a boar-hunt and to fill their halls with the tinkle of Parisian witticisms, these grandees never approached their lands of their own free will. The iron ...
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Excerpt from The Household of the Lafayettes That brilliant world was contained within the gates of Paris. There all the nobles congregated: Paris made their aims; Paris made their pleasures. The roads from the city to the provinces were mere cart-ruts that looked as if a gentil/zomme's coach could never roll along them Unless it were to amuse a Parisian party by a boar-hunt and to fill their halls with the tinkle of Parisian witticisms, these grandees never approached their lands of their own free will. The iron persuasion of a lettre de racket could alone induce them to remain there, and the two estates that were exceptions in prosperity were those of the exiled Ducs de Choiseul and d'aiguillon. It is only when we realize how stationary gentlemen then were, that we under stand how they found time for incessant society, copious letter-writing and absorbing friendships. They did not so much as stir out of Paris with their families in the summer, till late in the eighteenth century and even then the annual visit to the country gave them no pleasure. Like all French arrangements of that day, it became an intellectual institution, due to the prevailing Anglomanie, and still more to the influence of Rousseau. N ature meant to them no joy of hill and woodland, but a Theory of Education and a Social Millennium. Small wonder, then, that Arthur Young, travelling southwards in the France of I 787 covered 270 miles without meeting a single gentleman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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