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What did the British make of their great national enemy in the eighteenth century, and how far did tourist experiences confirm or qualify established views? Any discussion of national views encounters immediate methodological problems. There are ample texts that can be quarried, but the weight to be placed upon them is unclear. The views that were widely disseminated were those present in literary sources, but it is necessary to consider the particular constraints, exigencies and conventions of the culture of print.
I am so totally engaged and ravished with the novelty and variety of my travels.
John Holroyd (1735–1821), later 1st Earl of Sheffield. St Quentin, 17631
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Waldegrave to Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 4 December 1727, BL. Add. 32753; Robinson to Charles Delafaye, Under-Secretary for the Southern Department, 9 July 1729, Waldegrave to Delafaye, 6 December 1732, PRO. SP. 78/197, 201.
Molesworth to Hugh Gregor, 24 March 1739, BL. Add. 61830 fol. 166; Gardenstone, Travelling Memorandums made in a tour upon the Continent of Europe, in the years 1786, 1787 and 1788 (3 vols., 1791), I, 5, 12.
P. Gaxotte, Paris au XVIIIe siecle (Paris, 1968); O. Ranum, Paris in the Age of Absolutism (New York, 1968).
J.M. Black, ‘Natural and Necessary Enemies’. Anglo-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century (1986) and America or Europe? British Foreign Policy, 1739–63 (1998).
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Black, J. (2003). Introduction. In: France and the Grand Tour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287242_1
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