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This is the impressive pose assumed by the hero of our story, whose formal written French makes it seem all the more a conscious attitude, though at the same time it is more than a pose, for he is plying his pen while the tempest roars and rages about him, for days and, finally, weeks on end, in mid-Atlantic, literally saevis tranquillus in undis.
This article is the slightly shortened version of J.W. Schulte Nordholt, ‘Gijsbert Karel Van Hogendorp in Amerika 1783–1784’, Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, LXXXVIII (Groningen, 1975) 39–62.
Assis dans un coin de ma chambrette, dans l’enveloppe d’un grand manteau, puisque la pluie perçoit de différents cotés, et sourd au bruit des vents et de la mer, sans me ressentir des mouvements incommodes du vaisseau… je me suis occupé pendant des heures de suite de l’ouvrage intéressant de cet écrivain élégant et judicieux.1
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Nordholt, J.W.S. (1978). Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp in America, 1783–1784. In: Schöffer, I. (eds) Acta Historiae Neerlandicae. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9677-9_6
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